Comment 179 for bug 733349

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sabby7890 (tsalacinski) wrote : Re: [Bug 733349] Re: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking its Launcher Icon

This, reducing the font size and fixing some annoying bugs would make
Ubuntu perfect.

W dniu 16.10.2011 16:40, Felix Belzile pisze:
> Agreed with everyone here.
>
> The launcher already takes up a lot of space, so you might as well make it do something other than open an application.
> Think about the basic design principles.
>
> 1. How often do you think people will want to open new applications?
> 2. How often will people want to minimize these applications?
>
> Number two, if you haven't guessed correctly, will be used the most often... and it is the feature not supported.
> There is no good reason to not make windows minimize on click, except to piss people off.
> Yes, there is a minimize button on the top of every window. But look at the size of this button to the launcher. I don't think its a fair comparison. The amount of effort it takes to aim for the small button is way beyond what I have to do to click the massive launcher button.
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> I'm already disappointed enough with the launcher not being able to move
> locations. This is why I switched to Linux in the first place. I might
> as well go back to Windows and have a launcher that works the way I want
> it to.
>
> Stop making decisions for us.
> This goes against the meaning of the word Ubuntu.
>