Compiz default Application Switcher (Alt+Tab) is difficult to use

[Milosz Derezynski]

I agree, but it should be no big problem to write a new one. It should be
pretty cleat to see looking from the outside that a small window sliding the
windows through with at best 3 of them visible at a given time is not a very
usable window switcher when you have more than 2 or 3 windows opened
(appealing to compiz developers now :)

2008/4/29 Justin M. Wray <wray.justin.ubuntu at gmail.com>:

> And at this point seems to have more "community" support, and a faster
> development cycle.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin M. Wray
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com>
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:38:48
> To:ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com<To%3Aubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Compiz default Application Switcher (Alt+Tab) is difficult to
> use
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 00:20 +0100, chombee wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > I took the liberty of assuming you meant to reply to the list and not
> > just me. I would like to find out what if anything is happening among
> > the compiz people about this issue and speak to them about, but I can't
> > find out how. Their website is quite confusing (for one thing I don't
> > know if I want compiz.org or compiz-fusion.org). I gave up easily, I'll
> > try again.
> > <snip>
>
> So I discovered that both compiz.org and compiz-fusion.org point to the
> forums at http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/. I couldn't find any mailing
> list or bug tracker. A search of the forum for "application switcher"
> finds that various people have complained about both of the issues with
> the application switcher in various threads, but it doesn't look like
> anything is being done about it. Ubuntu has been shipping with this (in
> my opinion) major usability regression for I believe a year now? And
> it's not the only one, the Show Desktop button is pretty bust in compiz
> too. I worry that there is no developer momentum to get these kind of
> usability issues in compiz fixed.
>
> I'm not sure there was anything useful I could do. Perhaps I could have
> started another thread, summed up the issues and how they should be
> fixed, and linked to all the other threads, my closed bug report, and
> this thread, but I would only have been repeating what has already been
> said.
>
> I'd like to point out that metacity's new compositor has a correct
> implementation of alt-tab with window previews. In general compiz has
> many bugs and usability regressions compared to metacity, but in my
> testing metacity's compositor is not as fast as compiz. Hopefully it
> will catch up and could potentially replace compiz, but I fear compiz is
> already too entrenched, it seems to be very popular.
>
>
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