New issue
Advanced search Search tips

Issue 712218 link

Starred by 1 user

Issue metadata

Status: WontFix
Owner:
Closed: Jun 2017
Cc:
Components:
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



Sign in to add a comment

provide option to not group windows in shelf/taskbar

Project Member Reported by matthewb@google.com, Apr 17 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 9202.64.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.146 Safari/537.36
Platform: 9202.64.0 (Official Build) stable-channel lulu

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open multiple windows of a single application, e.g. multiple Chrome browser windows.
2. Note how there is only one icon for the application on the shelf.  There is no way to directly choose a window from the shelf.

The workaround is to click on it, which opens a window which is probably not the one I want, thus changing Alt+Tab order which interrupts my workflow for switching windows in that manner.  Then I have to click on the icon again, and finally with a third click I can select a particular window.

I find this clumsy and inefficient.  I realize some users must like this, as Chrome OS is not the only window manager I've seen do this in recent years, but there should be an option for disabling it.

What is the expected behavior?
I expect an option to not group windows in the shelf/taskbar, so that I can easily switch to specific windows.

What went wrong?
1) It takes 3 clicks to pick a window, instead of 1.

2) The first click opens a window which, if it's not the one I want, changes Alt+Tab ordering in a non-intuitive way because it injects a window which I did not want to open into the beginning of the recently-used-based order.

3) I cannot see the list of windows without two clicks or Alt+Tab keypress.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 57.0.2987.146  Channel: stable
OS Version: 9202.64.0
Flash Version:
 
Cc: sgabr...@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Owner: tbuck...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
To Tom for shelf
Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
Thanks for the feedback report! What are your thoughts on Overview Mode (accessed via F4 key or 3-finger swipe up on trackpad)? Right now, Overview Mode and Alt-Tab are Chrome OS's window-based managers, while the shelf is organized by application. We tried to specialize each window-switching surface for a target use case so that they wouldn't be redundant.

Closing this since we have no plans to offer a setting to switch the shelf's behavior, but happy to continue discussing with you.

Sign in to add a comment