Comment 9 for bug 175874

... and that's enough reason for wildly inconsistent behaviours to be
low priority??

The core UI has to be consistent, I find it incredible that this bug
can be unresolved for so long, and still dropped in priority after all
this time.

Very, very disappointing.

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On 30 Jan 2011, at 17:41, Travis Watkins <email address hidden> wrote:

> And shift switcher is not enabled by default anyway.
>
> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu Natty)
> Importance: High => Low
>
> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu Natty)
> Milestone: ubuntu-11.04 => None
>
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> Title:
> shift switcher should keep track of order like application switcher
>
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “compiz” source package in Natty:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: compiz-fusion-plugins-main
>
> In compiz-fusion, the Shift Switcher has a strange way of keeping
> track of windows. Let's say I have ten windows open, numbered in
> order of which I've used most recently (1 being most recent).
>
> Application switcher allows me to switch between the 2 most recently
> used windows (1 to 2 and back to 1) by simply pressing alt-tab and
> alt-tab again. After switching, it leaves all windows where they were
> except the one I've selected. To go to the one I used before these
> two, I press alt-tab-tab (1-2-3).
>
> Shift switcher does something arbitrary that I haven't figured out
> yet. In most cases if I just do hyper-tab, it goes 1-2. But if I
> cycle through more than that, it goes 1-2-8 or 1-2-4. Then what was 1
> may get pushed way to the back behind 10 and 7. Most annoying of all,
> it doesn't just bring the window to the front temporarily as
> application switcher does, but it permanently shuffles the windows on
> your desktop, so everything is out of order, especially if I cycle
> through more than one window. This makes it impossible to quickly
> switch between two or three windows I'm working actively with, instead
> bringing to the front things I haven't worked with in hours. Why not
> just use the same algorithm application switcher uses, keeping track
> of which windows have been used most recently and leaving all windows
> except the selected one where they were?
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