AltTab: Windows Alt-Tab on macOS

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by airstrike • 5 years ago

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lsaferite2• 5 years ago

OSX being application centric vs. Windows being document centric is such a PITA. I much prefer the document centric approach.

nsonha2• 5 years ago

You are just swiching windows the wrong way.

The user is supposed to build a mental model of applications and windows in their head and think about that carefully when switch.

Apple's thought very hard very different, and deliberately build their UI that way to keep people's minds sharp. You're welcome.

diroussel2• 5 years ago

It’s not a problem of mental models. It’s that the UI is not good.

The Cmd-Tab to switch between apps is good because it’s Least Recently Used (LRU) ordered, and the there is a visual to show what you are choosing.

Once you’ve done Cmd-Tab to choose an app then you need to do Cmd-` to choose the document. But this is usually not LRU and not visual.

In Firefox I can configure LRU and visual tab switching, but not windows switching. And Finder or IntelliJ I can cycle through windows but not in LRU order.

I have a good mental model of my apps, windows, documents and tabs, but my mental model is LRU based, not cycle based.

frizzlebox• 5 years ago

Funny enough, I was looking for an app that did the opposite! I want macOS-style alt-tab and alt-` in Windows.

I found a program that seems to (mostly) work. I wish there were others like it: https://neosmart.net/blog/2017/easy-window-switcher/

ComputerGuru• 5 years ago

Thanks for the mention. Let me know if you have any problems with it!

AltTab: Windows Alt-Tab on macOS

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