GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 570070
alt-tab switcher should respond to mouse scroll-wheel
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:08:11 UTC
when the alt-tab switcher is invoked, scrolling the mouse wheel should move the window selector Other information: once alt-tab is initiated, and alt is left depressed: scrolling down 1 should emulate pressing `tab` scrolling 1 up should emulate pressing `shift+tab`
This would be neat and would bring a feeling of consistency to the alt-tab dialog. After all, the scroll wheel can switch you through tabs in a notebook or windows in the window list on the panel. One addition comment, I think it should be *tab* which is released to allow this functionality. Releasing alt makes you leave the alt+tab mode entirely.
It seems more useful to me to make it possible for the user to click on the desired window icon with the mouse. It's a feature OS X has and it's useful when you have many windows open and see the one you want right away. Then it's much easier to click on the window icon than to press tab 10 times. At the moment, clicking on a window icon in the selector just makes it go away – not very useful. (Hmm, this probably belongs in a new bug report.)
Martin: We both said same thing, but me saying "alt is left depressed" was not a straighforward way of saying it. Robin: I (mostly) agree, though it might well belong in another bug / request.
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