On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 15:27 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > If you press super+w, then you get a view of your open windows. Pressing > super+s or pressing super+numX2, then you get similar views. Since I don't > know if these have a collective name, I've chosen to call them superviews > for the purpose of this email. They have different things in them; windows > or workspaces (and perhaps other things in the future), and I'll just call > them items for now. > > When you're in a superview, pressing alt+num has no effect. I think it would > be very beneficial if pressing and holding the alt-key would display a > number > over each item, enabling you to switch between them by using alt+num. > The idea > is that you should be able to work with superview items in the same way that > you work with tabs in most tabbed applications, like Nautilus and > Firefox. You > should be able to rearrange the items and the numbers should reflect > that. This > would also be consistent with how the launcher works. > > Let me demonstrate the benefit of this approach by using some examples. > Let's > say you have placed gnome-terminal at the 4th position in your launcher. > You > have lots of open terminal windows that you use for different things at > different times. It becomes somewhat difficult, or at least cumbersome to > navigate between these windows. But imagine you could press super+44 to > get to a > superview containing all those windows. You then press alt+1 to get to the > first window, alt+2 for the second, etc. If you know that you're not > going to > use a terminal for a while, then you can just move it out of the way and > forget > about it until you need it. Or if there is a different terminal that > you'll be > using more, then you drag it so you get a comfortable alt+num combo to > reach it. >
What a super idea. Since going to Unity, I use Super-W quite a lot, being very forgetful of what applications/widows I have open, and where they are. But the only way I have to select one of the windows, is to reach for the mouse and click on it. This is anathema to me as a lover of keyboard short cuts. I hate having to reach for the mouse just to do a simple single action. So numbers on the windows to select them, or some other scheme of keyboard selection would be great. Tony _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
