I generally don't use often multiple windows of a same application. But I observed this behavior yesterday (and today). I agree with Greg: this is unintuitive, and makes Unity less functional at dealing with running windows/applications.
This is even more problematic with apps that have non-minimizable windows, like The GIMP. I just now tried to see what happen when opening multiple images in The GIMP, minimizing some of them, then trying to scale. And I got two different results (non of them being what I would have expected). - The first time, I opened The GIMP, opened one image, opened a second image (I now have 3 visible windows: GIMP toolbar, image1, image2). I minimized the first image (visible windows are now GIMP toolbar and image2). I minimized the second image (visible windows are now only the GIMP toolbar). Trying to scale The GIMP would only allow me to see the toolbar; my images stay minimized. And the toolbar cannot be minimized, so I could not use Greg's trick. The only available option is to close The GIMP, then running it again. If I were modifying the two images, I would certainly have lost much work. - The second time, I opened the GIMP, opened one image, opened a second image (I now have 3 visible windows: GIMP toolbar, image1, image2). I minimized the first image... and the toolbar gets minimized too! o_O (image2 is now the only visible window.) Tryning to scale The GIMP would only scale image2; I now don't have any access to either image1 or even the GIMP toolbar! I either have to minimize image2 to be able to scale all windows, or close image2/The GIMP. Maybe there is an unknown button or shortcut that allows to scale minimized windows? If not, IMO, this is a major usability problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751082 Title: Difficult to switch to minimized window of active program -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
