window z-order not intuitive when mouse wheel scrolling over launcher icon

Bug #1288163 reported by Alan Bell
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This bug affects 2 people
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unity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

open several windows of one application type (gnome-terminal is good, but anything will do)
hover over the launcher icon and use the mouse wheel to scroll between them, raising windows one after another, scroll back and the sequence is not reversed.
rock the wheel back and forth one click at a time and it will alternate between one window and each of the others in turn.
I would expect that scrolling the wheel would pop a window from the top of the stack to the very bottom, scrolling the other way would pull windows off the bottom of the stack and put them on the top, that way window switching acts like a ring. Currently it seems to push the current window to top-1 then does some hard to describe sequence to pull others up in turn, it isn't reversable, so if you scroll through a lot of windows, go past the one you want and go back one, you don't get to the thing you wanted.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.1.2+14.04.20140228-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-12.32-generic 3.13.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Mar 5 10:14:16 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-01 (672 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120421)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-25 (38 days ago)

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Alan Bell (alanbell) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Christopher Townsend (townsend) wrote :

Hi,

Thanks for taking time to enter this bug report. This is a duplicate of bug #1286784. A patch to fix this is attached to that bug, and we are in the process of reviewing that patch and getting a fix in for this.

Thanks!

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