When Unity is loaded, expo exits to the workspace being pointed at (not the one highlighted)

[Katie Taylor]

When in the workspace switcher, if you press Super+s you are taken to the window which contains your pointer. This window is not necessarily highlighted, as the highlight shows which window you came from.
For good user experience we should show users which window they will be exiting to, by highlighting the window. The current behaviour is confusing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Wed Nov 14 16:15:31 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-05 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1059549, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Katie Taylor (katie-t)]

I dont think this bug is a duplicate of <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/1059549"> bug #1059549</a>.

This bug is referring to the orange highlight around the window in the window switcher. Currently the orange highlight is around the window that you came from. I think this is a bug and the orange highlight should be around the window that super+s will take you to.

Bug #1059549 is referring to which content is bright and which is dimmed when in the workspace switcher. This behaviour is inconsistent.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Actually, to support keyboard navigation (which is one of the only reasons there is a highlight), we need to be able to exit to the highlighted workspace consistently and ignore the one the pointer is over. The fix should simply be to ignore the pointer location and use the highlighted workspace if exiting via the keyboard.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Oh dear. The bug does not exist in upstream compiz. Only in the Ubuntu build :(

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Hmm, and the bug does not exist in upstream Ubuntu Compiz builds either. Seems this only happens when the unityshell plugin is loaded.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1076976, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.