Public bug reported: Alt-tab is generally showing up the switcher and give people the ability to switch between applications, raising all windows of an application if you don't enter into the window thumbnail subview to select a particular window.
Alt + key above tab enables switching between the last 2 windows of the current focused applications. A case that happens to more advanced user is to switch between 2 windows of the last 2 applications. You can see a documentation browser in the background for instance and a terminal overlapping it. (the terminal has more than one window on this workspace). The issue is that you are fine with the terminal on top of the browser. However, if you alt-tab to the browser and alt-tab back (even without the switcher displayed), you will end up with all windows from your terminal raising, and so, covering your browser. This is clearly for advanced users, and that's why I think we can achieve a smarter/more advanced alt-tab behavior without breaking the paradigm: In case of a quick alt-tab (before the switcher UI shows up), we can cover the power user use-case, which is to switch quickly between the last focused window of the last 2 applications. To sum that up in a simple case: - you have an application with one instance, maximized - you have another application with multiple instances, like multiple terminals, not maximized. If you press alt-tab, even quickly, the whole second application would be raised (as no window has been selected). The consequence is that you have all terminal in front of, for instance, your browser or documentation viewer you are using. The behavior we implement enables this. However, as soon as the switcher ui is displayed to the user, not selecting a particular window instance will raise the whole applications. Consequently only "quick alt-tab" flow is impacted. Here is a video of the current upstream behavior: https://youtu.be/D32VEP0sFk4 Here is a video of the proposal: https://youtu.be/k-IBk-Fibj4 ** Affects: gnome-shell Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #787627 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787627 ** Also affects: gnome-shell via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787627 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716921 Title: Enable quick alt-tab to switch between last windows of the 2 recent applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1716921/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
