I feel like a simple, easy way that is consistent with the rest of the gnome-shell "application-based" philosophy, is to have alt+tab simply switch amongst running applications rather than windows. I think small snapshots of actual windows are very hard to read, and very hard to tell what application it is as opposed to a big application icon. I love the application-based switcher that gnome-shell currently has. it is actually my favorite alt+tab switcher of anything I've used in linux, I just hate the nested window portion of it which seems to complicate and clutter things up IMO.
Just my opinion. On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Gregory Petrosyan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Gregory Petrosyan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Richard S <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Personally I like the nested alt tab that gnome. I think that the interface >>> should be a modal that semi-requires further input. This would allow a user >>> better application navigation and management. >> >> Can you please explain, *what exactly is wrong* with windows-style >> alt-tab? Too simple? Or gnome-shell should be different just for the >> sake of being different? > > Sorry, I've missed David's explanation. > > But nevertheless, IMHO your design is complex. Will it be easy to > explain to 70 years old person? > > What about simply making alt-tab display grid of windows above > slightly grayed (full !) screen, where you can use alt-tab, > alt-shift-tab, mouse and whatever else? Seems simple to me, plus > efficient, because of either big window previews or big number of > windows displayed simultaneously. > > Gregory > _______________________________________________ > 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
