I can only re-iterate my suggestion from earlier, with a slight
alteration:

"If we had a Windows 7-style window selector displayed on hover then the
behaviour could be:

1) Open/restore window(s)
2) On hover, display window selector alongside icon
3) On click, minimise all windows

This would both match people's expectations and provide an easy way to
switch between open windows."

The expose is what makes this complicated. As a work-around, Rasto's
idea would be OK, but I do think it's fairly complicated as the launcher
is always doing something different (though no more complicated than the
current behaviour which is totally confusing and just makes the launcher
seem broken).

Remove expose (ie. place that functionality in a nice window selector)
and the launcher only has two jobs: launching apps and minimising them.
If there is one window, click to restore, click to minimise. If there
are multiple windows I would say that clicking the launcher icon should
minimise ALL windows of that app because there is currently no GUI way
of doing so, whereas if you just want to mimimise the top window you can
just hit the mimimise button. Click again to restore. It's simple,
understandable and predictable.

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  Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher

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