Re: alt-tab interface proposal

[William Wolf <throughnothing gmail com>]

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
<gregory petrosyan gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Gregory Petrosyan
> <gregory petrosyan gmail com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Richard S <corn13read gmail com> 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
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William Wolf