No Way to Select Window when Multiple Windows are Open

Bug #1079332 reported by Daniel Nadeau
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Pantheon Dock
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

When there are multiple windows of a program open, there is no way to select a specific window, as clicking the icon opens all windows. This is especially complicated when there are multiple maximized windows.

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Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz) wrote :

Right-clicking on the icon gives you a menu containing the window-list from which you can choose the desired window.

Changed in pantheon-dock:
status: New → Invalid
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Daniel Nadeau (daniel-nadeau01) wrote :

This hardly seems very "elementary". It looks ugly doing that, and is text based.

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Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz) wrote :

There is also the ability to scroll over an item to walk through the windows.

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Matiss Treinis (mrtreinis) wrote :

Rico, pardon me, scrolling over icon to switch windows is cool idea, however it is complete and utter usability failure if I need to find out about such functionality from a year old bug report, dont you think?

This is a common problem (multiple eOS users known complaining). My suggestion would be ability to choose windows on hover. Text based or with previews - for community to decide. I would prefer with previews.

Changed in pantheon-dock:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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