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Bug 662579 - Alt-Tab switcher must switch between windows, not apps
Alt-Tab switcher must switch between windows, not apps
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 660367
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.2.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-10-24 06:15 UTC by Eugueny Kontsevoy
Modified: 2011-10-24 06:27 UTC
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Description Eugueny Kontsevoy 2011-10-24 06:15:54 UTC 
The new behaviour of task switcher is broken: it now uses 80-era concept of "programs" that it's switching between. 

It must use a more modern concept of switching between windows, not apps. The concept of switching between apps is confusing and obsolete, simply because users have web-based apps (that will be shown as a single "Firefox" icon) not to mention terminal-based applications.

And process-based separation of "windows" and "apps" is simply obsolete/broken. A task switcher has no way of knowing if a window is an app or not, it only confuses people. Please stop copying bad ideas from OSX which itself is stuck in the 80s.

The task switcher must use windows, not "apps".
Comment 1 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2011-10-24 06:27:58 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

I completely agree that the app-based switching is horrible and broken, but I doubt we're going to win this one. I'm marking this bug a duplicate of another completely unrelated bug with patches to the Alt+` (or Alt+<key above tab> in Non-US layouts) switcher to make it more like a traditional window switcher.

You also may want to try the alternate-tab extension.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 660367 ***