Comment 378 for bug 733349

One click to show the window picker. A second click to minimize all
windows. Rince and repeat.

Not so difficult, is it?

2014-02-04 Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden>:

> Clicking on the icon exposes apps' windows. Please, do not change that!
> It's uber useful! When i click on it, i want to focus that app not make
> it disappear into oblivion!
>
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> 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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