Provide a way to disable minimizing of windows by click

Bug #1524118 reported by Felix Haller
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Plank
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Bug Description

It would be nice if plank has the option to disable the minimize when an app in the dock is clicked that already has focus.

Maybe an option to change the "click-when-window-is-already-focused" behavior to one of the following:

1. minimize (as it is now)
2. cycle through open windows of the same app
3. nothing

That would also change the behavior of the first click. With option 2 activated not all windows of the app would be shown but only one. And after one more click the next one, and so on...

How does that sound?

Changed in plank:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote :

I'm not sure why you want to do nothing. Typically we try to avoid having interactive elements do nothing.

I'm +1 on having the behavior be cycle instead of minimize though.

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anriettec (anriettec) wrote :

This would be a welcome addition. The "Nothing" option would be nice to have included, but not really "do nothing" but rather bring all windows of the application to the foreground (no animation for that). This is Mac behaviour I quite miss since switching.

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