@Roland I thought I had explained it sufficiently. I do not work for Canonical. I only represent myself and my opinions here. I too am not happy with the global menu for example or the general Mac copying that has been going on in the Unity design team (which I'm not part of). I merely pointed out that a launcher works differently. I personally prefer the old taskbar but I don't see that coming back. The very difference between a launcher and a taskbar is that one has per application buttons the other per window buttons. Hence a launcher can't hide a single window or focus a single window with one single click. It is impossible and that's a fact not an opinion. You can still implement ways of enabling the functionality you want but it will work slightly differently. I and others suggested some ways to improve the launcher for window-centric user scenarios in the ayatana mailing list, the Windows 7 taksbar is another you might be familiar with. I urged everyone to read the relevant threads there (they are all online now at https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/)
That having said you can still use gnome-panel in Unity and when I use Unity I run tint2 and set the launcher to always hide. If you read the mails I posted to the list you'll find that I'm an expressed critic of Unity, not just in the little details but in terms of the general direction it has been going. You'll find that I'm actually on your side, against any (perceived) dictatorship... Back to the concrete topic at hand: This bug is about hiding applications, i.e. all windows of one application. If you want per window hiding open a new bug for that, if you want an optional (?) taskbar make a wishlist bug for that. I'll change the description now as I've heard no disagreeing feedback in this regard since I posted #49 several weeks ago. ** Summary changed: - Minimize windows upon clicking application's launcher + Minimize Applications upon clicking on Launcher Icons ** Description changed: - What I do miss in Natty (Alpha 3 + daily builds) is the possibility to - click on the app. icon on the Unity launcher bar to minimize the app., - not only to launch/restore it. This is standard behaviour on other - desktops (at least on KDE, XFCE & MS Windows - don't know for Mac), and - I think this should be implemented as well on Natty/Unity. - - mlaverdiere's futher addition: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana- - design/+bug/733349/comments/2 + What I do miss in Natty (Alpha 3 + daily builds) is the possibility to click on the app. icon on the Unity launcher bar to minimize the app (=all windows of one app), 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). -- 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 Applications upon clicking on Launcher Icons -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
