Public bug reported:
Possibly this is not an implementation bug, but rather a conceptual one.
However, bug is a bug. And bugs are better off fixed.
Let's say you have a few gnome-terminals ...
Press gnome-terminal icon on the Unity bar - expo mode will be activated - all
the gnome-terminal windows are zoomed out and exposed in some order.
Now, the algorithm that determines this order is problematic to say the
less.
Let's say you pick one of gnome-terminal windows in the expo mode. It goes to
the top of window pile. Let's say after examining it from the close you
understand that this one is the wrong one. Once again you go to the expo mode
...
However, now the order of windows in expo mode has changed as it depends on
their placement in normal mode, and the window we've just examined was moved to
top (i.e. changed its normal placement).
Many a time I find myself switching between 2 windows trying, actually, to hunt
the 3-rd one.
What should be done is that in expo mode, the placement of zoomed out
windows must be constant, determined, let's say, by each application's
PID, as it expresses time dimension (or just order of window
invocation).
Actually, there are 2 expo modes: on per application basis, and global.
All the said above is valid for both.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins:
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,grid,mousepoll,regex,vpswitch,snap,gnomecompat,place,wall,move,resize,imgpng,animation,expo,session,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Tue Jan 17 17:02:51 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity
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wrong windows placement in expo mode
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