Sorry, it was late night and I might expressed myself complicated. It looks like only Bazon got what I wanted to say.
My proposed behavior is exactly the same as it works right now, but there is that extra enhancement, when nothing happens anymore. Here it is once more: + when multiple windows are spread and exposed, next click will go back to hide the "spread" and the cycle can start all over again - that is the beauty of it (right now you can click all you want and nothing happens - that is unnatural) + same thing goes for single window, if it is in focus, next click will hide it (minimize it, right now that click does not do anything) Please do not imagine what I just said, try it, run bunch of applications and try to do something useful. Here are some practical example. CASE: I am writing e-mail in Firefox, giving quote to customer. I have LibreOffice Calc opened somewhere which contains some calculations, materials etc. So I go to launcher, find that opened spreadsheet and click on its icon, it focuses as expected, I check few numbers and without even moving mouse I click on it again to make it go away, so I can compare those numbers from Calc against e-mail. Nothing happens, and I am clicking again... So finally I would have to go with mouse to my e-mail and maybe forgot those numbers by the time I get there :) Maybe I have opened few browsers with bunch of websites where I get my supplies for project, and I am getting a bit angry :( And of course I have project's blueprint opened and calculator, dictionary and customer's previous e-mails... That is why I need that visual feedback, to check to quickly asses. Moral of the story is that users behavior was expected (clicking again) but response to that expectation was not met. If I brought the window (or expose them) with click why doesn't that action have complementary action with the following click? And do not tell me that I should clearly be using keyboard shortcuts, because then maybe I do not even need mouse or even launcher or GUI or with that line of thoughts I might go straight for different OS :( FINAL THOUGHT 1: What if pressing ALT+TAB (switching among apps), would just stop at the last app? Try it! Run few apps, hold down ALT and press TAB few times, now imagine that it does not go in cycle. How does it feel? Discomforting isn't it? Well that is exactly how I feel when pressing that icon in launcher - it could do something more (even something very expected), but for no reason it wont... FINAL THOUGHT 2: If I turn on light with "switch" should I not be able to turn it off with the same "switch"? Perhaps, that is what people expect since childhood so please do not tell me it is not intuitive. Give it second thought, please, make it right. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733349 Title: Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
