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Bug 637064 - Let users re-arrange the layout in the Window mode
Let users re-arrange the layout in the Window mode
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 685904 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-12-12 03:28 UTC by Juanjo Marín
Modified: 2012-10-31 09:58 UTC
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Description Juanjo Marín 2010-12-12 03:28:30 UTC 
Apart from the ALT-Tab keystrokes, users can go to the window mode to change to 
other applications, specially mouse-centric users.

I really think that having a windows order designed by the user can improve a 
lot the task of accesing the applications this way.


So, we can implement an order rule in the Window mode like this:

1) If you press an program icon in the Window mode, or in the Application mode, 
it will open after the last opened window
2) The user can re-arrange the order of the opened windows
3) The user can open a window from favorites in the place whatever she wants 
using DND
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2012-10-24 05:58:38 UTC 
*** Bug 685904 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Allan Day 2012-10-31 09:58:32 UTC 
Interesting idea, and I see where you're coming from. I don't see it working though.

First, the critical thing we need to do is make the window thumbnails as big as possible, and keep their position stable. I don't think a feature like this would help with that.

Second, the primary purpose of moving windows would be to group them, and we already have workspaces for that, so I don't really see the demand.

We can come back to this idea once we have the window selector in better shape. Until then, I think this has to be a wontfix.