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> Or the same Apple UX where there is a different shortcut depending on whether I want to switch between windows of the same app or windows from different apps?
by mdaniel 3y ago
> Or the same Apple UX where there is a different shortcut depending on whether I want to switch between windows of the same app or windows from different apps?
That one is on purpose, and I vastly prefer it to (what I presume you are implying) the "alt-tab across every window in the universe". I'm delighted that even Ubuntu now honors the alt-backtick versus alt-tab distinction, although I'd bet that is configurable, which is likely what you're asking for, too
My experience is that the Windows windowing system supports keyboard navigation through the UI elements much, much more than Apple (and often Ubuntu, too). I do prefer that, but not enough to use a vastly inferior OS that just happens to have strong keyboard UI navigation support
- cesarb 3y ago> My experience is that the Windows windowing system supports keyboard navigation through the UI elements much, much more than Apple (and often Ubuntu, too). That's due to historical reasons. While both X11 and Apple could assume the presence of a mouse, it was an optional add-on for a PC back in the MS-DOS days; the original 16-bit Windows had to be fully usable even in the absence of a mouse (the only thing which came with Windows and didn't work without a mouse was the image editor Paintbrush). A lot of that keyboard-oriented legacy still survives in the Windows API.