Public bug reported:

When you click on a application icon in the launcher it runs/comes to 
foreground, which is the expected behavior.
But when you click again on the icon of an application which is already in 
foreground, the natural/expected behavior is for the window to be 
hidden/minimized.

This is a better behavior than the current one because you sometimes just want 
to peek into another applications window quickly and hide it again. The 
proposed behavior makes this quick and easy as you only have to click again to 
go back to your previous window, while with the current behavior you have to:
1- find the icon of the previously in foreground app in the launcher.
2- move the mouse pointer to that icon and click it.

which requires attention and distracts you from focusing on your work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: unity 6.10.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
 
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: 
[core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sun Nov 18 13:54:30 2012
DistUpgraded: 2012-10-22 12:04:29,299 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] 
(rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:215a]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-20 (150 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MachineType: LENOVO 2516CTO
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-18-generic 
root=UUID=e3ba4e68-c80a-4f90-a961-d564942ff7a5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-22 (27 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 02/09/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6IET81WW (1.41 )
dmi.board.name: 2516CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6IET81WW(1.41):bd02/09/2012:svnLENOVO:pn2516CTO:pvrThinkPadT410:rvnLENOVO:rn2516CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2516CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T410
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4+bzr3407-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.0-0ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 
1:6.99.99~git20120913.8637f772-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.20.9-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug compiz-0.9 i386 quantal running-unity ubuntu

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