Comment 42 for bug 733349
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| Christian Mackintosh (christian-mackintosh) wrote Re: Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher | #42 |
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(Get the code!)
I can only re-iterate my suggestion from earlier, with a slight alteration:
"If we had a Windows 7-style window selector displayed on hover then the behaviour could be:
1) Open/restore window(s)
2) On hover, display window selector alongside icon
3) On click, minimise all windows
This would both match people's expectations and provide an easy way to switch between open windows."
The expose is what makes this complicated. As a work-around, Rasto's idea would be OK, but I do think it's fairly complicated as the launcher is always doing something different (though no more complicated than the current behaviour which is totally confusing and just makes the launcher seem broken).
Remove expose (ie. place that functionality in a nice window selector) and the launcher only has two jobs: launching apps and minimising them. If there is one window, click to restore, click to minimise. If there are multiple windows I would say that clicking the launcher icon should minimise ALL windows of that app because there is currently no GUI way of doing so, whereas if you just want to mimimise the top window you can just hit the mimimise button. Click again to restore. It's simple, understandable and predictable.