Alt+Shift+` (key-above-tab) should switch windows in reverse order
Bug #1368615 reported by
mcandre
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ayatana Design |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| Unity |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| unity (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
There's a GUI convention for navigation: adding the Shift modifier to a hotkey is typically interpreted as 'do the same thing as the hotkey, except in the other direction'. Control+Tab+Shift may visit the previous Web browser tab. Control+Z+Shift may redo the last edit, and so on.
Ubuntu offers Alt+Tab for switching between windows, and Alt+Tilde for switching between windows of the same application. Ubuntu also offers Alt+Shift+Tab for switching between windows in reverse order.
However, Ubuntu, or some odd dependency, neglected to make a corresponding Alt+Shift+Tilde hotkey for switching between windows of the same application in reverse order.
Please add this missing hotkey.
Revision history for this message
| Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- Alt+Shift+Tilde (~) should switch windows in reverse order + Alt+Shift+` (key-above-tab) should switch windows in reverse order |
| Changed in unity: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
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Unity does support the Shift modifier to go back in both Alt+Tab and Alt+` (or Alt+~ in your keyboard), but only after you've opened the view with the normal keybinding (i.e. without shift). This actually seems to me the same behavior of Firefox (the "shift" version of the key binding only works after that you've initialized the switcher first).