It is even less intuitive when it's a secondary partition that is a
permanent part of the main filesystem tree. For example, I keep my work
files on a separate partition, but it's always mounted in
/home/david/data. So, if I open Nautilus it'll show my home directory.
Then, as soon as I double-click the “data” mountpoint, the Nautilus
window “moves” from the Nautilus icon to the Data drive icon.

I'm fine using the drive icon to mount it, but once it's open I always
try to find the window in the Nautilus icon. I can't seem to get used to
this idea that local files are on Nautilus but external files are not
(even though they are open in the Nautilus application).

I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for years, and this behavior still
trips me up. I think it's safe to assume that if I haven't gotten used
to this behavior by now, it's not gonna happen. If this is the way it's
supposed to be and novice users don't get confused by it, can we at
least have an option in Settings to group all Nautilus windows under the
Nautilus icon?

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Title:
   After minimizing a Nautilus window of another partition or external
  media or Trash folder, clicking on the "Files" icon on the Launcher
  again doesn't restore the minimized window, but opens a new one

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