Unity is Missing a Show Desktop BUTTON
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Although Unity offers a keyboard-shortcut (super-D) as a means of "showing your desktop" (minimizing all windows at once), it does not provide a MOUSE-CLICKABLE
Keyboard-shortcuts are efficient, but they are not intuitive for new users of Unity, and having a MOUSE-CLICKABLE
Furthermore, (although some people think Window 7 doesn't have a show desktop button) Window 7 still provides a show-desktop-
Unity's "Workspace Switcher" is helpful for locating the windows of running applications, but it doesn't not replace the functionality of a show-desktop-button in the event that your needing to quickly access a file or launcher that has been saved to the desktop itself.
Personally, I'd like to see a show-desktop-button added to the bottom of the Unity-Task-Bar.
However, another option for a mouse-click-way of showing the desktop (that is more elegant, but with more steps) is to add the "show desktop" option to the context menu of the Workspace Switcher.
This is something that could be quickly added before the 12.10 release ( http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.8.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
Date: Wed Oct 17 11:20:47 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-04 (12 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.