Application Switcher Menu?

[Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net>]

On 12/22/2009 07:34 PM, David Hamm wrote:

"Isn't the plan to add a global menubar?"

oh gawd, please don't. If its anything like the global menubar in osx, then its a nightmare. Please keep the applications settings within the application.

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I've tried it before, and it's not so bad. I used to use this Gnome Global Menu Bar a lot until the Gnome System Monitor crashed with it running. What I'd love though is this one feature it had:

In Gnome Shell, after I test out a new release I'm frequently disappointed when I find out that clicking the open program's name/icon in the top panel doesn't do anything :(. If I clicked the program's name/icon, I expect it to do one of the following:

1) Open up a menu of each open application (preferably separated somehow to show they're on a different workspace if applicable). This could solve our "how do we switch windows on a single workspace?" problem.

2) If I highlight or right-click a program's name/icon in the menu, another menu could come up with windows that belong to that program (such as the Buddy List and IM window(s) in Pidgin/Empathy or the Download/Browser). Like ALT+Tab, but for people "allergic to keyboards" ;).

Any thoughts?