alt-tab should do nothing when only the journal is running

[mtd]

If only the Journal - and no other activities - is running, alt-tab should do nothing.

Currently, it shows the frame and switches to the journal, and then keeps switching to it (which looks to the user just like the frame is getting revealed and hidden for each Alt+Tab press).

Releated to #1518 .

[fran]

The current behavior is basically equivalent to what GNOME does; in GNOME, if you have a single window open, it still brings up the usual Alt-Tab dialog. (And it's not always a no-op, since that window might be minimized; in the case of Sugar, they might be in the Activity/Group/Neighborhood view) I'd be inclined to say this is the proper behavior; a user pressing Alt-Tab may have forgotten they have only the Journal open, and it's useful for the frame with its list of activities to appear and remind them of this.

[sascha_silbe]

Replying to fran:

The current behavior is basically equivalent to what GNOME does; in GNOME, if you have a single window open, it still brings up the usual Alt-Tab dialog. (And it's not always a no-op, since that window might be minimized; in the case of Sugar, they might be in the Activity/Group/Neighborhood view) I'd be inclined to say this is the proper behavior; a user pressing Alt-Tab may have forgotten they have only the Journal open, and it's useful for the frame with its list of activities to appear and remind them of this.

+1
Having Alt-Tab do nothing just makes it appear broken.

[smparrish]

IMO this is the correct behavior and am inclined to just close this one.

[mtd]

The current behaviour - showing the Frame, which is not a window/task switching UI element - is not at all the same as GNOME showing the window/task switching UI. There is no indication the one has started switching tasks but that there is only one task to switch to. I agree that if the user did get visual feedback they had started the task switching the behaviour, it would be acceptable.