I'll +1 this as well in case it helps. In fact the nested alt+tab switcher is the thing I like the least about gnome-shell. I run my own modified version that eliminates the nesting thumbnails completely and just makes alt+tab switch apps only. I then use the metacity/mutter "cycle_group" shortcut to cycle to the window that I want inside of that app (but usually its the last used window anyhow.) I also prefer alt+tab to bring all windows of the selected application to the front, leaving the most recently one focused, of course. I think this fits into the app-centric mentality that gnome3/gnome-shell is trying to emphasize/foster.
Just my 2 cents. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:21 AM, David Mulder <[email protected]> wrote: > Just thought I would +1 this issue, as this stroke me as rather odd as well > when seeing it the first time. Practically alt+tab is used to only cycle > through the last two or three windows and not even that much to find a > single window (at least that's how I use it and how I have seen a most (if > not all) others use it as well). I can't think of any good UI, but at the > very least the nested UI seems to be decreasing rather than increasing > efficiency. > David Mulder > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Gregory Petrosyan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sorry if this is explained in details somewhere, but here's my question: >> why >> on earth does gnome-shell use "nested" alt-tab? IMO the whole idea of >> Gnome-Shell is "flat instead of nested" (which makes perfect sense), and >> which >> makes overlay mode so good. >> >> Gregory >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-shell-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > -- William Wolf _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
