Hans, If your goal is to bring the minimized window into input focus, then Dennis's advice is sound - just single click.
If your goal is different, then consider capturing a Bugzilla request. Regards, On Friday, May 18, 2012, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Um, on Windows, the easy (and only recommended) way to restore is to > single-click the file on the task bar. Or you can use Alt-Tab and other > techniques to cycle through the open documents and restore the one you want > by selecting it among those displayed. (In some applications, you can get > to any document instance, minimized or not, via a "Window" menu option, but > it means you need the some application window restored to get the menu.) > > I imagine that double-clicking on the file name in the documents directory > location (understood to be a request to open/launch the resource) runs into > the lock on the already-open file and, since the lock is from a running > instance, it simply ignores the second open attempt. This appears to be > application-specific behavior and is probably an expedient solution that > doesn't require separating out edge cases (file being open and locked in a > different application than the one associated with the file name, for > example). I suggest that the current behavior is preferable to a typical > default behavior when an already-locked document is encountered (for some > apps: offer to open read-only, over-ride the lock, or cancel). I suppose > another option would be to drop the current instance and open the document > anew. > > You are welcome to make a feature request in the Bugzilla. Please be > specific about which operating systems you want the behavior on, because I > don't think what you are asking for is "usual" for Windows. I have seen > the Microsoft Office behavior you describe. It takes great care to get it > right. I suspect the behavior was added to protect users from opening two > instances on the same document and/or not simply report that the document > is already open in some/the application. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hans Zybura [mailto:hzyb...@zybura.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 05:44 > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [USER EXPERIENCE] Double clicking file name of minimized document > > Currently with AOO 3.4, double-clicking a file name of an open document > that > has its document window minimized or in the background does not change the > state of the document window at all. The only result on Windows is the > mouse > pointer changing to hourglass for a short time - nothing else happens. The > same is true with earlier Versions of OOo. This is inconvenient and unusual > behavior. > > I didn't test this with AOO 3.4 on MacOs and Linux, but earlier Versions of > OOo showed similar results when double clicking file names of minimized > document windows on both OS's, i.e. nothing happened at all. > > Propose (target AOO 3.5): Double-clicking a [file name of | icon of | link > to] a minimized document should result in restoring the document window to > its previous size and position, make it the topmost window and give it the > focus. If not minimized but in the background, make it the topmost window > and give it the focus. > > Most applications on Windows (AFAIK on MacOS and Linux, too) handle it the > way I propose. Some applications, e.g. Microsoft Excel, will additionally > ask whether they should re-open the document and warn that unsaved changes > may be lost then. I don't think the Excel way is better. > > Any comments on this before I write an issue in bugzilla? > > Regards, Hans Zybura > > >
