| 2012-11-22 10:55:30 |
John Lea |
description |
It would be very useful if you could simply hover over an icon of an open app and scroll with the mouse wheel to switch and highlight between the windows of that app, if it has more. |
It would be very useful if you could simply hover over an icon of an open app and scroll with the mouse wheel to switch and highlight between the windows of that app, if it has more.
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Desired resolution:
Try implementing the following as an experiment. Before the change described below lands in Ubuntu *it must first be user tested, and reviewed by the design team*
If the pointer is positioned over the Launcher icon of an application that is in focus which has multiple windows open in the following order A,B,C,D,E:
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'one click towards the user' should display the next window (B) of the application in the Z stack. e.g.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: B,A,C,D,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'one click away from the user' should display the bottom window (E) in the application in the Z stack
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: E,A,B,C,D
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'two clicks towards the user' should first briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window B) after the first mousewheel click, and then on the second mousewheel click return window B to it's previous position in the z-stack and display window C.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: C,A,B,D,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'two clicks away from the user' should first briefly display the bottom window of the application in the Z stack (window E) after the first mousewheel click, and then on the second mousewheel click return window E to it's previous position in the z-stack and display the next most bottom window, window D.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: D,A,B,C,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'three clicks towards the user' should first briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window B) after the first mousewheel click, and then return window B to it's previous position in the z-stack and briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window C) after the second mousewheel click, and then on the third mousewheel click return window C to it's previous position in the z-stack and display window D.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: D,A,B,C,E
- etc, etc... for more windows and more mouse wheel clicks in either direction.
If the application *is not* in focus when the user moves their pointer over the Launcher app icon, the first mouse wheel click towards or away from the user should focus the application, and bring the top most window in the application's z stack to the front of the global z stack. Subsequent clicks of the mouse wheel the operate exactly as described above.
If the application is not running, or has only one open window mouse wheel clicking towards or away from the user when the pointer is over the application's launcher icon should do nothing.
Because this behaviour will conflict with the current use of the mouse wheel to scroll the launcher, the mouse wheel launcher scroll should be changed to only work when the ALT key is held down. e.g. to scroll the launcher with the mouse wheel the user will have to press ALT + MOUSEWHEEL UP or press ALT + MOUSEWHEEL DOWN |
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| 2013-02-07 11:13:15 |
John Lea |
description |
It would be very useful if you could simply hover over an icon of an open app and scroll with the mouse wheel to switch and highlight between the windows of that app, if it has more.
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Desired resolution:
Try implementing the following as an experiment. Before the change described below lands in Ubuntu *it must first be user tested, and reviewed by the design team*
If the pointer is positioned over the Launcher icon of an application that is in focus which has multiple windows open in the following order A,B,C,D,E:
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'one click towards the user' should display the next window (B) of the application in the Z stack. e.g.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: B,A,C,D,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'one click away from the user' should display the bottom window (E) in the application in the Z stack
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: E,A,B,C,D
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'two clicks towards the user' should first briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window B) after the first mousewheel click, and then on the second mousewheel click return window B to it's previous position in the z-stack and display window C.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: C,A,B,D,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'two clicks away from the user' should first briefly display the bottom window of the application in the Z stack (window E) after the first mousewheel click, and then on the second mousewheel click return window E to it's previous position in the z-stack and display the next most bottom window, window D.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: D,A,B,C,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'three clicks towards the user' should first briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window B) after the first mousewheel click, and then return window B to it's previous position in the z-stack and briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window C) after the second mousewheel click, and then on the third mousewheel click return window C to it's previous position in the z-stack and display window D.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: D,A,B,C,E
- etc, etc... for more windows and more mouse wheel clicks in either direction.
If the application *is not* in focus when the user moves their pointer over the Launcher app icon, the first mouse wheel click towards or away from the user should focus the application, and bring the top most window in the application's z stack to the front of the global z stack. Subsequent clicks of the mouse wheel the operate exactly as described above.
If the application is not running, or has only one open window mouse wheel clicking towards or away from the user when the pointer is over the application's launcher icon should do nothing.
Because this behaviour will conflict with the current use of the mouse wheel to scroll the launcher, the mouse wheel launcher scroll should be changed to only work when the ALT key is held down. e.g. to scroll the launcher with the mouse wheel the user will have to press ALT + MOUSEWHEEL UP or press ALT + MOUSEWHEEL DOWN |
It would be very useful if you could simply hover over an icon of an open app and scroll with the mouse wheel to switch and highlight between the windows of that app, if it has more.
---------------------------------
Desired resolution:
Try implementing the following as an experiment. Before the change described below lands in Ubuntu *it must first be user tested, and reviewed by the design team*
If the pointer is positioned over the Launcher icon of an application that is in focus which has multiple windows open in the following order A,B,C,D,E:
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'one click towards the user' should display the next window (B) of the application in the Z stack. e.g.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: B,A,C,D,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'one click away from the user' should display the bottom window (E) in the application in the Z stack
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: E,A,B,C,D
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'two clicks towards the user' should first briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window B) after the first mousewheel click, and then on the second mousewheel click return window B to it's previous position in the z-stack and display window C.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: C,A,B,D,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'two clicks away from the user' should first briefly display the bottom window of the application in the Z stack (window E) after the first mousewheel click, and then on the second mousewheel click return window E to it's previous position in the z-stack and display the next most bottom window, window D.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: D,A,B,C,E
- Scrolling the mouse wheel 'three clicks towards the user' should first briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window B) after the first mousewheel click, and then return window B to it's previous position in the z-stack and briefly display the next window of the application in the Z stack (window C) after the second mousewheel click, and then on the third mousewheel click return window C to it's previous position in the z-stack and display window D.
Starting Z stack order: A,B,C,D,E
Output Z stack order: D,A,B,C,E
- etc, etc... for more windows and more mouse wheel clicks in either direction.
If the application *is not* in focus when the user moves their pointer over the Launcher app icon, the first mouse wheel click towards or away from the user should focus the application, and bring the top most window in the application's z stack to the front of the global z stack. Subsequent clicks of the mouse wheel the operate exactly as described above.
If the application is not running, or has only one open window mouse wheel clicking towards or away from the user when the pointer is over the application's launcher icon should do nothing.
Because this behaviour will conflict with the current use of the mouse wheel to scroll the launcher, the mouse wheel launcher scroll should be changed to only work when the ALT key is held down. e.g. to scroll the launcher with the mouse wheel the user will have to press ALT + MOUSEWHEEL UP or press ALT + MOUSEWHEEL DOWN
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Additional test case defining the interaction with minimised windows:
hyia, minimised windows should be at the back of the stack. So if App 1 has have windows A, B, and C (stacking order) and you minimise window A, and then focus App 2, when you move your pointer over the launcher icon of App 2 and scroll the mousewheel one click, window B should appear. Moving the mouse wheel one more click should then show window C. Moving the mouse wheel one more click should then show window A. Moving the mouse wheel one more click should then show window B. Moving the pointer so that it is no longer over the launcher icon of app A at this point should focus window B. Window A should remain minimised. |
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