Designers seem to have declared war on minimizing. Elementary OS and Gnome even removed the minimize-button. Many want to make the PC more like Android and eliminate the difference between close and minimize. After close the state is preserved in memory for quick reopen. We see that music apps keep on playing when closed.
I have nothing against that. But the PC differs form a phone and tablet because it can show many windows in the same time. What I find annoying is that when I open a new app, I have to hide the other window manually not to have a cluttered interface. I find it distracting when pieces of other windows are sticking out. I would want to suggest a more profound solution: I call it AUTOMINIMIZE ============================================================================= Whenever an app is opened hide all other visible windows automatically! Of course this is not always wanted, and that is why I suggest to change the minimize app in a pin-app to prevent it from hiding. I would also like this behaviour when changing apps with alt-tab or dock. ============================================================================= Only show the apps that is called. To make it perfect you could make some apps pinned by default. This way we do not need to minimize any more and this would also work fine on a mobile devices as well. Witch is important as Ubuntu is pursuing to , create a unified interface for mobile devices and desktops. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733349 Title: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking its Launcher Icon Status in Ayatana Design: Won't Fix Status in Canonical Design: New Status in Unity: Won't Fix Status in Unity Tweak Tool: Won't Fix Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: What I do miss in Unity is the possibility to click on the app. icon on the Unity launcher bar to minimize all windows of that application, not only to launch/restore it. mlaverdiere's futher addition: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349/comments/2 My suggestion would be to modify the interaction-design/process like this (*=my modification proposal/2 cents!): 1) start it, if it hasn't been started yet; *2) restore it, if it is minimized; *3) focus the app, if it's started, not minimized and has not the focus yet; 4) spread windows (of app), if app is focused and has multiple windows open; *5) minimize it if it is in spread-mode (see 4). Note that this bug has over 300 comments and several working but rejected patches. This means that this feature probably will never land in official Unity! So if you want it, you have to use a patched version of Unity. There is a working patch for 13.04 ( from comment #322, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana- design/+bug/733349/+attachment/3573380/+files/minimize.patch ). Somebody should set up a PPA (and note it here) to make it easy to install the patched version. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
