Forgive me for starting the comments in such a way, I am simply tired of seeing the Ubuntu team make poor choices in terms of functionality. Some can be good and some can be bad but unfortunately right now the bad out weigh the good.
> And this feature is still available "by users" for at least >= 12.04, and given that your first comment starts with "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!", it doesn't sound like your posts are of any help here as you say in "doesn't help this issue". Please direct me towards a PPA that i can install to allow this feature for 13.10 or 14.04, that is if you can which i highly doubt is possible without having to build unity from scratch. > Also, you got something wrong there, this is not supposed to be a "forum" where anyone posts his/her useless opinions, this is supposed to be a *bug tracker*. Honestly i don't really care what its called. The point of the matter is to comment on the situation and make it a bigger deal. I know that the Ubuntu team has decided that they will not fix this issue but if we continue to heat this argument then maybe that will change, but sitting here complaining about how other people are wrong isn't helping anything. The point of this discussion is to help the Ubuntu team understand what we find is wrong with the current functionality and how they can go about fixing it. > Though commenting here won't have any effect on the official versions of Ubuntu anyway, Canonical has decided it neither likes the proposed feature nor does it like customization. I cannot help but feel you are missing the point of this conversation entirely. If there is a problem and no one talks about it or makes any comments about how there is something wrong, does that problem ever get fixed? NO! Please add reason and persuasion to your comments and MAYBE the Ubuntu team will see this and decide to attempt a fix. best regards -- 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
