Quicksilver will restore hidden but not minimized windows. With Advanced Features enabled, there's a preference (under Extras) for the behavior of opening an already open app. You can set it to activate, show the front window or show all windows.
Because of Quicksilver I tend to hide applications instead of minimizing windows. I have triggers for my most commonly used apps using the Toggle Application action. This hides an open app and unhides a hidden app with a single keystroke. If the app is open but not frontmost, hitting the trigger twice makes it frontmost. Very convenient. Long ago ytrewq1 had written a plugin to manipulate windows, but it never got beyond prototype stage. OS X didn't make it easy for an app to manipulate another app's windows. Witch was the best at it that I know of, but I've never used it and haven't looked at it in a long time. http://www.manytricks.com/witch/ Howard On Dec 8, 2009, at 3:15 PM, sclough wrote: > Ok, I feel clueless. You're right. What I was noticing is that > Google Chrome wasn't restoring the window properly, but you are > correct the icon doesn't work either. Apparently Chrome has non- > standard behavior or a preference set wrong... > > On Dec 8, 1:49 pm, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:22 PM, sclough wrote: >> >>> For some reason I seem to remember that when you activated an >>> application that was already running that Quicksilver would restore >>> the last minimized window if there was no active window. Now it just >>> activates the application but does not restore minimized windows. Is >>> my memory failing me or did Quicksilver used to be able to do this? >> >> I don’t think Quicksilver does anything special. It should do whatever >> clicking the applications icon in the Dock does. Does clicking it in the >> Dock bring up a minimized window? >> >> (Tested it on my system and both methods of activating will bring a >> minimized window up. For what it’s worth, using ⌘⇥ to switch activates the >> application but does *not* bring any minimized windows up.) >> >> -- >> Rob McBroom >> <http://www.skurfer.com/> >> >> If you need something, that doesn't mean someone else owes it to you.
