Comment 190 for bug 733349

2011/10/18 razor <email address hidden>

> I know why this bug won't be fixed. Because it makes no sense for a
> tablet with touch screen to minimize an app when user clicks the
> launcher icon. What will the user expect when they touch the launcher
> icon? The obvious answer is to list all the opened windows managers and
> then press the one they want to activate. Minimizing it, confuses the
> whole thing. Neither multiple icons can be used to represent individual
> nautilus windows.

You are missing a trivial solution to your hypothetical(*) tablet issue:
first click activates window picker; second click minimizes all windows,
third click restores them. Problem solved. Touch workflow is not impacted,
people get a way to quickly minimize a window and fix one of the most
egregious bugs in Unity.

That's what we have been suggesting since the very first comments in this
thread and related bug report, and this is what a user kindly implemented
back in 11.04.

(*) I say hypothetical, because Unity in 11.04 and 11.10 is not targetted at
tablets. This has been made clear time and time again, by closing
tablet-related usability bug reports and feature requests. (Besides, touch
input cannot work with invisible menus and window controls, so it's pretty
obvious tablets are not being taken into account - ergo, this is a red
herring).