GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 661207
Require the user to explicitly choose a window from the dash if there's more than one available
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:04:55 UTC
Instead of using the MRU window of an app to determine which gets activated, we should be asking the user to explicitly pick which window they want more. Even if we don't want this behavior, the window previews are probably a nice addition.
Created attachment 198553 [details] [review] appDisplay: Add window previews to the window menu
Created attachment 198554 [details] [review] Require the user to explicitly pick a window if there's more than one available If there is more than one window in the same application, the user should be required to explicitly choose the one they want to transport to instead of falling back to the MRU
Maybe (just maybe), in the case where there is exactly one window of the app, the dash should still ask the user whether he wants to open a new window or present the already opened one?
The bad answer: Windows 7 does it this way, and I'm used to Windows 7. This is a patch without any design team input. Marking ui-review.
I have never used Windows 7 so I might be wrong, but from what I heard, the main difference between the shell and Windows 7 is that, in Windows 7, re-clicking on the app icon launches a new window of this app while in the shell, after clicking on an app icon, the dash disappears and so you can't easily, and without using the right click, launch a new window if the app is already running. That s*cks for regular PCs, but that su**s even more for touch UIs. I really think that gnome shell needs a simple way to launch a new window of an app using the mouse left button.
(In reply to comment #5) > I have never used Windows 7 so I might be wrong, but from what I heard, the > main difference between the shell and Windows 7 is that, in Windows 7, > re-clicking on the app icon launches a new window of this app. I'll test when I get back home, but I've tried double-clicked on the app icon, I always right-click on the app icon to open a new window. You can also click and drag the jumplist out. Items in the jumplist often open a new window.
> I always right-click on the app icon to open a new window. You can also click > and drag the jumplist out. Items in the jumplist often open a new window. Oh yes, that works, even though it's not really intuitive :)
See also bug 650030.
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