Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by unethical_ban on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:50PM
(#14045964)
That's a 6 year old screenshot. They've made incremental improvements since... but yes, I've grown to appreciate it. The most annoying part of unity7's interface is its alt-tab function: It toggles between apps, not windows, and that's annoying.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by xtracto on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:09PM
(#14046108)
That's the same behaviour as OSX. At first I also hated this behaviour, coming form the Linux/Window environment. But after using it in conjunction with ALT+` (to cycle through app's Windows) I actually find it better than the standard Windows behaviour.
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by ComputerGuru on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:26AM
(#14049587)
Hey, what do you know. We just released this last month, but it didn't get any love from HN:
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by lathiat on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:46PM
(#14046373)
Yeah once you learnt to use alt-backtick to switch window apps this is a much better experience IMO. Doesn't work without that though.
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by pyre on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:54PM
(#14047563)
My biggest issue with the macOS way is that there are edge causes when using Spaces. The biggest being "stand-alone" Chrome apps like Signal Desktop are still tied to Chrome, even though they get their own icon and a separate place on the Dock. CMD-Tab'ing to Signal Desktop might just send me to a Chrome window. Ugh.
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by pcr0 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @12:21AM
(#14047905)
That's why Google has been phasing out Chrome apps for a while now.
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by dingo_bat on Thursday April 06, 2017 @08:55AM
(#14050047)
Google has been phasing out chrome apps on all platforms because alt tab is broken in osx?
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by pawadu on Thursday April 06, 2017 @06:34AM
(#14049371)
I am with unethical_ban on this. Most of the time I am switching between multiple instances of the same app and this drives me crazy.
Just because OSX does it (I don't think windows 10 does this) it doesn't mean it is a good idea.
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by jvolkman on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:41AM
(#14051566)
So use alt+`, which allows you to switch between multiple windows from the same app without the clutter of other apps.
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C...
by sampo on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:47PM
(#14047521)
Alt+` (or whatever key is above tab, if you have non-US keyboard) toggles between windows of the same app. I don't know if there is key combination to toggle between all windows, though.