I think that this was brought up somewhere else recently, but I'm not sure
where. Maybe ayatana, I'll look.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:35 PM, doshitan <[email protected]> wrote:

> A solution could be to just add a mouse-able trigger for the Alt+Tab
> interface. This would provide those who don't always have a hand on the
> keyboard access to a switching function that is not the Overview (which can
> be too much for some people).
>
> Threw together some images this afternoon that show a way this could work.
> After the first one they are really just the progression that we are
> all familiar within Alt+Tab (App --> App windows).
>
> First image (note the little triangle next to the app's title in the
> panel):
> http://imgur.com/zWzBG.png
>
> Second image:
> http://imgur.com/GFs4Y.png
>
> Third image:
> http://imgur.com/2dipC.png
>
> Final image:
> http://imgur.com/Zx0hq.png
>
> Obviously the trigger could be changed to whatever, but the triangle is
> already used in other parts of the Shell so I just used it. This
> implementation would not require any major changes to what already exists,
> just add a little trigger to the panel and allow Alt+Tab to adapt to
> its position so that it doesn't have to center everything when moved.
>
> On a side note: I really wish we could keybind Alt+<Key above Tab> to move
> between windows of the current app. Being required to Alt+Tab then Alt+<Key
> above Tab> to move between windows seems like an artificial limitation.
> /rant
>
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