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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by oefrha on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:46AM (#25725935)
> CMD - tab forced me to think ahead of time if I want to change to the last application or the last window of the same application. I.e. switching between two Safari instances takes a different key combination than switching between Safari and IntelliJ.

That’s a feature, not a bug. I personally hate having to tab through a million browser windows to find the application I need, or having to tab through unrelated applications when looking for a browser window, which is what I have to put up with when using Windows.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by eitland on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:56AM (#25726004)
It is a feature which replace another feature (stack based switching). It broke my flow multiple times a day for three years until I got a Windows machine again. I guess we are just differently wired, the idea of stopping to consider which shortcurt to use was neither natural nor possible for me at that age (around 30).

KDE does this perfectly however. It defaults to Windows/classic Gnome 2 behaviour but can easily be configured however one wants it.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by silon42 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:20AM (#25726174)
It's not a feature for anyone used to standard alt+tab (and ctrl+tab). Often I wish switching between tabs was on first level too.

I don't appreciate the Mac/Gnome way.

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Re:GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets... by oefrha on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:39AM (#25726288)
“Standard” is just your habit built on another operating system. macOS has a fundamentally different application and window model, which is also why there’s a consistent application menu bar across all applications and windows, not what each app decides to invent or not invent for itself within the window.
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