Dragging an icon to the "Show Desktop" icon could minimize that application

[Vincent]

The new "Show Desktop" application ( not on the desktop by default, but installable from the software centre ) is used to minimize all open windows. With this in mind, I think it's fairly intuitive to drag an application's icon to the Show Desktop icon and having all windows of the application minimized. Not only is this pretty intuitive (probably), it also adds the feature of being able to minimize all application windows at once.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this bug needs design discussion so I added ayatana-design as affects and marked the status to incomplete till we wait for design team feedback.

[Vincent (vinnl)]

Hi John, I see you updated the description and I assume you know what you're doing, but I was talking about an icon on the Launcher. I haven't tried 12.04 the last few weeks so I'm not sure whether perhaps the show desktop icon has been replaced by an application that can in turn be placed on the Launcher - if that's the case, then this is still what I mean, otherwise this is perhaps something different than what I meant?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

@Vincent, anyrock is going to replace the current icon with a new 'show desktop' app which you can place in the launcher by dragging from dash, the current form of show desktop will be replaced so this bug will then be applicable. Thanks

[Vincent (vinnl)]

Great, then it's still exactly what I meant. Thanks!

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

Contradicts bug 903732