So you think we should just ignore those who think it was a bad decision (including myself) and don't provide any option to satisfy those who wish there was an option to minimize?
http://about.me/rolandixor/ On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Benjamin Geese <[email protected]>wrote: > I know this is rather annoying as everybody seems to see the need to > comment on this while this issue has been decided about two years ago. > > Saying that, i join this mess of noisy comments because i feel on view is > rather underrepresented in this thread: > The one of a happy user! > > I am perfectly happy with the current behaviour have never missed the > minimized feature. I fact it might disturb my workflow. > > And even more so: I have never be so happy with a stable and functional > desktop environment on linux as i am with unity. I think there have been > some very good design decision made and, this time, we should just trust > those people who decided this is a opinion or won't fix and leave it at > this. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733349 > > Title: > Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking its Launcher Icon > > Status in Ayatana Design: > Won't Fix > Status in Obsolete project please ignore: > Invalid > Status in Unity: > Won't Fix > Status in Unity Tweak Tool: > Won't Fix > Status in "unity" package in Ubuntu: > Won't Fix > > Bug description: > What I do miss in Unity is the possibility to click on the app. icon on > the Unity launcher bar to minimize all windows of that application, 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). > > Note that this bug has over 300 comments and several working but > rejected patches. This means that this feature probably will never > land in official Unity! So if you want it, you have to use a patched > version of Unity. > > There is a working patch for 13.04 ( from comment #322, > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana- > design/+bug/733349/+attachment/3573380/+files/minimize.patch ). > Somebody should set up a PPA (and note it here) to make it easy to > install the patched version. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349/+subscriptions > -- 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 Application's Windows upon clicking its Launcher Icon To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
