Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-themes-ubuntu
Hello,
This is a usability problem. I'm using the ambiance theme for over a
month, and I keep finding myself clicking a window in the window list
which is already active, thus minimizing it, instead of clicking the
window I want to show.
I think that this is because the highlighting a window button gets when
the mouse hovers over it is much stronger than the highlighting a button
has if its window has focus. This means that before clicking a button,
since it is always highlighted, it's very hard to tell whether I'm going
to show it (if it doesn't have focus) or hide it (if it has). It isn't
obvious whether another button is highlighted, because focused and
unfocused windows have roughly the same highlighting.
I suggest to disable hover highlighting completely, and show clearly,
using persistent highlighting, whether a window has the focus or not.
Perhaps the color of the border or the text could be changed when the
mouse hovers over a button, as long as it remains clear which window has
the focus.
I hope this can at least be checked. I'm really not a novice, so if I
keep doing the same mistake over and over then maybe something is wrong
about the design.
Thanks,
Noam
** Affects: gnome-themes-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Window list hover highlighting is confusing in Ambiance
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599043
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