Comment 375 for bug 733349

The number of people who would like to choose how this works is in the
thousands. Look at the bug heat, they just ignore it. Any firm that treats
their customers like this should die a slow and painful death.

Unity on desktop, broken by design just like win 8. MS however does respond
to the critics and promises to improve and return the start menu. Makes me
detest canonical even more.

On Jan 28, 2014 4:01 PM, "Dave Vree" <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Not sure the name calling is helpful.
>
> That said, if I had 465 of my regular customers telling me to make a
> tweak to my product. I'd change it.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733349
>
> Title:
> Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking its Launcher Icon
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
> Won't Fix
> Status in Obsolete project please ignore:
> Invalid
> Status in Unity:
> Won't Fix
> Status in Unity Tweak Tool:
> Won't Fix
> Status in "unity" package in Ubuntu:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> What I do miss in Unity is the possibility to click on the app. icon on
the Unity launcher bar to minimize all windows of that application, not
only to launch/restore it.
> mlaverdiere's futher addition:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349/comments/2
>
> My suggestion would be to modify the interaction-design/process like
> this (*=my modification proposal/2 cents!):
>
> 1) start it, if it hasn't been started yet;
> *2) restore it, if it is minimized;
> *3) focus the app, if it's started, not minimized and has not the focus
yet;
> 4) spread windows (of app), if app is focused and has multiple windows
open;
> *5) minimize it if it is in spread-mode (see 4).
>
> Note that this bug has over 300 comments and several working but
> rejected patches. This means that this feature probably will never
> land in official Unity! So if you want it, you have to use a patched
> version of Unity.
>
> There is a working patch for 13.04 ( from comment #322,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-
> design/+bug/733349/+attachment/3573380/+files/minimize.patch ).
> Somebody should set up a PPA (and note it here) to make it easy to
> install the patched version.
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