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What about the F3 key on a Mac, this let's you see all Windows and choose one..
Last time I tried doing that, it didn't even keep windows in the same place, breaking spatial memory. Is that still the case?
For Mac users asking "how is this different from the keystrokes I already have", this app is designed to give you Windows-style switching which is subtlety but fundamentally different from OSX-style window switching. MacOS is app-centric, so you have a keystroke to switch between apps and a keystroke to switch through the windows of the app. Windows is window-centric rather than app-centric, with a unified window sta…
Only by a little bit of time in some regards; for Windows 1.0 Microsoft first presented it to the public on November 10, 1983. The first retail release, originally slated for release in April 1984, Windows 1.01, was instead released on November 20, 1985. System 1, the classic Macintosh System Software was released in January 1984.
Also, yes, the Lisa was arguably the first to ship with the Desktop graphical interface most like the Macintosh prior to that even.
I'd posit that both Windows and Macintosh graphical user interface designs started around the same time effectively due to the market and depending on whether you were in the education or business sector, you could perceive the pervasiveness of each wildly differently.
I personally believe the Macintosh designers' early choice to heavily lean on skeuomorphic designs and its popularity in the nascent Desktop computer publishing industry reinforced the architectural multi-tasking choices made early in its development.
Some feedback from a mac user (if this is your project): The only description of the functionality on the page is "brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS." As someone that hasn't used Windows in years, this doesn't actually tell me anything. What does this do that command-tab and command-` don't already do in mac?
One absolutely huge limitation of macOS (IMO) is that cmd-` doesn't let you switch to windows on other workspaces. That means, if you have, say, one terminal window on one workspace and one on the other, there's no easy way to switch to the terminal window on the other workspace.
A recommendation, apropos of this discussion on window management: three finger swipe up on the trackpad for Mission Control/Exposé if you need a specific window. I know trackpads are below most programmers but I’ve found this is faster than hammering alt-tab on Windows if you have a lot of stuff open. Still use Cmd-tab and Cmd-` most of the time though.
You know you can click on the window you want while holding Alt+Tab, right?
For Mac users asking "how is this different from the keystrokes I already have", this app is designed to give you Windows-style switching which is subtlety but fundamentally different from OSX-style window switching. MacOS is app-centric, so you have a keystroke to switch between apps and a keystroke to switch through the windows of the app. Windows is window-centric rather than app-centric, with a unified window sta…
Some feedback from a mac user (if this is your project): The only description of the functionality on the page is "brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS." As someone that hasn't used Windows in years, this doesn't actually tell me anything. What does this do that command-tab and command-` don't already do in mac?
One absolutely huge limitation of macOS (IMO) is that cmd-` doesn't let you switch to windows on other workspaces. That means, if you have, say, one terminal window on one workspace and one on the other, there's no easy way to switch to the terminal window on the other workspace.
Wait what, macOS doesn't have any built in equivalent?
No. There is no way to get MacOS to be able to switch between open windows on a desktop via a keyboard shortcut without installing 3rd party software that adds this basic functionality.
It kind of works in the terminal, but only partially, and not in any other application.
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I'm on a Mac right now but I'm still having trouble understanding the relation. Say I want to switch the foreground application so I press command-tab, I get that, but how does that relate to menus being inside or outside the application?
Because the menu bar is associated with the application, not with the window. An open application does not need to have any open windows at all.