Unity alt+tab view fails to sort windows after recency of use

[Jon Loldrup]

Unity fails to sort the entries in the alt+tab list according to their recency of use:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgtbuUp1Z1k

my setup: ubuntu 12.04 desktop, 64 bit on a new System76 laptop

[Jon Loldrup (loldrup)]

I suspect that these three bugs might be related:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1069107
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1069107
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1069342

[John Kim (kotux)]

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Thanks!

[John Kim (kotux)]

Is sorting by recency intended behavior of alt-tab? How so?

[Jon Loldrup (loldrup)]

Well, that is the behavior *I* expect. A better question might be: are
there any other good candidates for how to order alt+tab entries?
Imagine alt+tabbing from Thunderbird to Firefox. Now you want to alt+tab
back to Thunderbird. Would you not expect Thunderbird to be the first entry
in the alt+tab list? Would you not expect to only tab *once* to get back to
Thunderbird?
(okay these questions are not isomorf, but, why would one want to visually
enter the list somewhere in the middle of it, rather than from the left?)
Den 15/09/2013 02.50 skrev "John Kim" <email address hidden>:

> Is sorting by recency intended behavior of alt-tab? How so?
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> Unity fails to sort the entries in the alt+tab list according to their
> recency of use:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgtbuUp1Z1k
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> my setup: ubuntu 12.04 desktop, 64 bit on a new System76 laptop
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