Unity

Clicking on the active application's icon doesn't hide it

Bug #741777 reported by François Tissandier on 2011-03-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #733349: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking its Launcher Icon. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

If I launch a new application, hide it, click on its icon, it will appear on the desktop. If I click again on it, nothing happens. I think the expected behavior would be to hide it again.

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2011-03-24:

No, that's not the intended behaviour. Clicking an launcher-icon has four possible functions:

1.) start it, if it hasn't been started yet
2.) focus the app, if it's started and has not the focus yet
3.) spread windows (of app), if app is focused and has multiple windows open
4.) unspread if in spread-mode (see 3.)

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Won't Fix

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2011-03-24:

Marked as "Won't fix". If you want to suggest a new feature, do so on the ayatana mailing list (with the design-folks) by starting a discussion for it. Once a reasonable conclusion on this issue is found, then is the right time for a bug (feature to implement) here :)

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François Tissandier (baloo) wrote on 2011-03-24:

So to suggest

5. Hide the application if app is focused

I have to email the ayatana ML ?

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2011-03-25:

Yes, get the discussion - with the design-folks - started on the ayatana mailing-list here, François:

https://launchpad.net/~ayatana or <email address hidden>

Doh, didn't see LP: #733349. So marking this here as a duplicate of the initial bug reported on this issue.