Comment 5 for bug 1083359
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| Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote Re: There is no quick way to see or select a specific instance of an application | #5 |
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I agree that there's no discoverable way to switch between windows that belong to one app.
Technically there IS a way, but it's absolutely not discoverable. I've never seen scrolling with mousewheel over a static element do something, so I never tried that.
Turns out that's how you switch windows of the same app with Plank. And besides being undiscoverable it's also a nightmare to do on touchpads. I'm not against having it, but I'm sure we need a more discoverable way too.
My first impulse was to keep clicking on the app icon until I get the window I need. However, that only toggles between showing the same window and mimizing all windows of the app - definitely not what I expected to happen. I've seen other people try that first and the original reporter of this bug tried that too, so I assume this is the most discoverable design (at least in the short term).
So IMO the bug is valid and to fix it we should make Plank switch to the next window of the active app instead of mimizing all app windows on clicking the active launcher.