Comment 6 for bug 857627

Regarding the needs design, I have not created a mock up but I have made some suggestions as to how it should change, that would help someone to create a mock up. These suggestions are based mostly upon the above discussion:

Improving Unity's confusing switcher.

-get rid of boarders, or just have a very discrete one (eg 1px thick and a similar colour to the switcher background).

-remove app background colours which reduce contrast from the hilighted app

-if necessary after having made the above changes, increase contrast between background and hilighted app by making hilighted app brighter. This should include when two instances of the same application are shown.

-(rounded) squares around app icons are unneccessary but I do see their use in keeping with the Unity theme and appearing similar to the launcher. Perhaps if their background colour is the same as the switcher colour and their boarders become low contrast, they might not be too distracting.

-IMO the rest of the behaviour of the switcher is good. It could do though with becoming less graphically intensive (and this may of course be an area for another team), although some of the above changes *may* assist with this.