Talvik, 

I have been increasingly suffering the same problems you have for a while, then 
i remembered you mentioning some proposals for a solution.

So I opened a bug about the problem here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/908811

Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:38:29 -0200
From: tal...@gmail.com
To: ayatana@lists.launchpad.net
Subject: [Ayatana] List windows on hover

Recently I've done task in which I needed to refer to several spreadsheets and 
other documents. In Unity, changing between the open documents was quite 
difficult, I had to think to much to find a window and my focus was constantly 
shifting from the main task.

The Launcher is quite agnostic to multiple window applications, so Unity relies 
to much on the window manager for this. I found it quite inferior to the more 
traditional task bar for this type of workflow. I've ended up running another 
task bar(tint2) to get my work done.


When I hover an icon in the Launcher it just shows a tooltip with the 
application name. I think it would be better if on hover it also listed the 
window's titles, clicking on an item would bring up only the referred window. 
This wouldn't affect most of the current behavior.

http://ubuntuone.com/1BAZfzHSzpHYCtfW5neY4Uhttp://ubuntuone.com/02CEbphUkex7mRqSdL5Yx7

I know Unity is aiming for simplicity, and is being inspired by newer OSes like 
android and iOS. But the work that people need to accomplish on the desktop is 
far more complex than what one does on a mobile.


regards,Talvik


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