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 :) <div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/29 Justin M. Wray <<a href="mailto:wray.justin.ubuntu@gmail.com">wray.justin.ubuntu@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> And at this point seems to have more "community" support, and a faster development cycle. <div class="Ih2E3d"> Thanks, Justin M. Wray Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: chombee <<a href="mailto:chombee@nerdshack.com">chombee@nerdshack.com</a>> </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:38:48 <a href="mailto:To%3Aubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">To:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> 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 <a href="http://compiz.org" target="_blank">compiz.org</a> or <a href="http://compiz-fusion.org" target="_blank">compiz-fusion.org</a>). I gave up easily, I'll > try again. > <snip> So I discovered that both <a href="http://compiz.org" target="_blank">compiz.org</a> and <a href="http://compiz-fusion.org" target="_blank">compiz-fusion.org</a> point to the forums at <a href="http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/" target="_blank">http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/</a>. 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. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>