Unity

Cannot close windows from within Spread Mode

Bug #908231 reported by Brendan Griffin
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Ayatana Design
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Unity
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unity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

A feature that would improve Unity's usability would be to have the ability to close windows from within Spread Mode.

For example, when the user presses Super+W and the "shrunk" windows appear, users should be able to middle-click a shrunk-window to close it. The shrunk-windows could also have an "X" in the corner so users can click the "X" to close the window.

Often, I end up having several windows open that I no longer need open. I might have 4 Firefox windows, 5 G-Edit windows, 3 Libreoffice Impress windows, etc. I'd like to be able to enter Spread Mode and selectively eliminate the windows I no longer need open.

Tags: needs-design
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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

This too needs design discussion

Changed in unity:
status: New → Incomplete
tags: added: needs-design
Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report, the spread is definitely an area that has some issues could do with design attention and improvement, unfortunately improvements to the spread won't be landing with 12.04, but hopefully with a subsequent release.

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Petko Ditchev (pditchev) wrote :

I don't see why the middle-click close can't be added for Precise . It's an existant option in Scale Addons (which I believe is in the main plugins pack) . The option is in CCSM->Scale addons->close_button - just set middle click as a default .

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John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

This issue should be fixed when development of "The Spread" is complete. See http://design.canonical.com/2012/03/task-switching-in-ubuntu-and-a-introduction-to-the-spread/ and http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/unity-task-switching/

I'm marking this bug 'invalid', because this issue is covered in the new spec

Changed in ayatana-design:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 876017, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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