Comment 85 for bug 733349
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| Ed Lin (edlin280-deactivatedaccount) wrote Re: Minimize windows upon clicking on Launcher Icons | #85 |
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Marco Biscaro:
Maybe "minimize" was a poor choice, a better term to properly distinguish the two approaches is "hide".
The launcher is for launching applications, it represents application, it indicates whether applications are running or not, you can "quit" applications from it's context menu. You cannot close particular windows from the launcher nor select individual windows from the launcher. You can only do that from the scale view which is a separate interface.
Why should the launcher suddenly hide "windows"? It would be completely inconsistent, illogical and simple "wrong". Mind you in any case this is more a question of terminology than an actual difference in behavior because application equals one or more windows, the difference however is that it's "all windows" or none, never individual windows.