close windows from switcher [wishlist]

[Daniele Bigoni]

It would be nice to be able to close windows while scrolling them in the switcher. When one has to close many windows, it gets a little annoying to have to go through all of them one at a time.

It would be nice to enter the switcher with Alt+Tab and then (holding Alt as for the command Alt+`) having a combination like Alt+q that closes the focused window.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

This is a nice idea...

It's also quite easy to do, if you want to contribute, feel free to ping me for support.

[Daniele Bigoni (daniele-bigoni)]

Right now I don't have time to contribute, but if you give me a couple of tips I could try to do it in the coming months.

Is there a tutorial on how to contribute (like where to branch and standard testing procedures)?
Where are the switcher actions defined?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I don't know the unity code enough to point you to the switcher actions but you can find documentation on how to start/contribute on https://unity.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/development/unity/

[N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux)]

As part of the big bug review for 16.04 LTS I have tested this on 15.10 and the bug is still there. I think this is a feature request rather than a bug.

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

If we can get the patch sorted easily, and design ack, then let's get this done and closed,

[Will Cooke (willcooke)]

From design:

This is OK to implement if the cost is low. It doesn't have any major impact on the design of Unity. Key to close application should not be Q because it is too close to tab, instead we should use X.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 7.4.0+16.04.20151211-0ubuntu1

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unity (7.4.0+16.04.20151211-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * unity: ensure we use python3 for the launch script and
    python2.7 for autopilot (LP: #1512909)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Places(Overlay)VScrollBar: impelement gtk-like overlay scrollbars
    (LP: #1481706)
  * Properly hide shortcut overlay window to avoid unnecessary redraws.

  [ Bryan Quigley ]
  * debian/control: Remove telepathy from recommends

  [ Eleni Maria Stea ]
  * Replaced deprecated calls in tests to get rid of compiler warnings

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * ApplicationLauncherIcon: if a new window opens while spreading,
    spread again with proper match (LP: #1517455)
  * ExpoLauncherIcon: add Quicklist to switch workspace and see the
    selected one (LP: #750497)
  * PanelIndicatorEntryView: Activate menus on click, by drawing them as
    active (LP: #1513523)
  * PanelMenuView: ignore leave events when triggered by feeding nux
    manually (LP: #1513496)
  * Places(Overlay)VScrollBar: impelement gtk-like overlay scrollbars
    (LP: #1481706)
  * SwitcherModel: allow to add/remove icons dynamically and update them
    when they require it (LP: #1512349)
  * SwitcherView: Add support to Alt+Key-right-to-tab to close the
    selected app/window
  * Switcher{View,Controller}: close active selection on Alt+q (LP:
    #1468820)
  * TextInput: show warning also when num lock is enabled
  * XKeyboardUtil: add ability to get keycodes from any relative
    position
  * debian/rules: enable unit tests on arm64 again (LP: #1514538)

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * Updated apport hook to include: the compiz and xorg details, not
    only after asking users if the issue is a graphical one (which is
    weird question) the upstart logs for unity/ups/lockscreen some
    gsettings configurations (LP: #1508974)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:46:16 +0000