Opening minimized windows should open them on the current workspace

[Danielle Foré]

Instead of opening on the workspace they were minimized on, opening a minimized window should open it on the current workspace (as per https://blueprints.launchpad.net/gala/+spec/minimized-as-closed)

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Gala can't do this. It is Plank which switches the workspace to focus (minimized) windows.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Thanks for the info, retargeting for Plank then and awaiting designer input.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Oh wait, it's filed by Dan. We have designer input already :)

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

I disagree. The dock shouldnt be migrating windows to new workspaces. Unminimizing should focus the workspace containing the window and then restore it.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Yea after some more thought, I'm thinking that maybe we shouldn't be making so much fuss over a case (minimization) that we don't even really support in elementary's default config. I'm fine with the behavior Robert describes here.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

I think I came up with a good way to do this in Gala: make the window sticky on minimizing it and restore stickiness to the original property on restoring it.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

@Sergey: I don't think that will work with Plank though. Plank will focus the window's *current* workspace, then restore it. So it still wouldn't migrate the window even in Gala.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

@Sergey: Making arbitrary windows sticky sounds pretty invasive and probably has quite some side-effects. So this is actually something which plank can take care of *IF* it is really wanted since it would mess up the work-flow for some people.
Also Dan already withdraw his wish.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

Alright taking this off the table then.