I agree name-calling is not helpful, but I'd like to add myself to the ever-increasing number of folks who wish this to change.
If Shuttleworth and/or Ubuntu developers are marking this as "wont-fix" just to make sure they're not taking design cues from anything Windows- related as a pride thing, I'd say that is a misguided thought to say the least. But, out of respect for the Ubuntu team I will assume they are merely waiting for more feedback from the community. So, here it is. It's an entirely helpful UI action that can be added relatively easily (and right now, nothing happens once a window has been maximized, so clicking-to-minimize doesn't subtract anything does it?) and helps quite a few folks (myself included). -- 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 Obsolete project please ignore: Invalid 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
