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[Andrea Azzarone <1016613@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: ayatana-design
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  application launcher icons are mixed with icons of minimized windows

Status in Ayatana Design:
  Invalid
Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I now, it's the way it is designed, but it is wrong.

  And the fact that Mac OS does it this way too doesn't make it less
  wrong. Apple can afford, or sometimes even _needs_, to do things the
  wrong way, because Apple users love Apple products just because they
  are Apple, and they want them to distinguish from the rest. They don't
  care if occasionally they are actually less usable. So if the
  prevailing way of doing something, adopted by all competitors, happens
  to be already the best one, Apple needs to distinguish itself by doing
  it a different way, even if it's worse.

  An icon to launch an application and the icon of an already opened
  window are two completely different things, and it is demential to
  have them mixed together. When you need to switch between open
  windows, or to drag something into an existing but minimized window,
  you don't want to have to look through a lot of icons, including those
  of applications that are not open, and pay attention at which ones
  have a small arrow next to it. Icons of open windows should be grouped
  together and separated from icons of application launchers.

  Also, there are cases where one thing is calling an already opened
  instance of a program and another thing is to launch a new instance of
  it (including programs that don't have a notion of "open a new
  window") and you need to be able to do any of the two things.

  And Gnome worked just that way, but then Ubuntu 11.10 came and
  replaced Gnome with Unity and something that was designed correctly
  was replaced with something that is simply and plainly worse. I'm
  talking about this particular aspect, i.e. the way application icons
  are managed. I'm not saying Gnome is generally better than Unity. But
  this is one feature that has been a huge step back in usability.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
  .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
  .proc.driver.nvidia.version:
   NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  295.40  Thu Apr  5 21:28:09 PDT 2012
   GCC version:  gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,snap,place,resize,session,regex,grid,wall,move,gnomecompat,imgpng,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  Date: Fri Jun 22 17:15:50 2012
  DistUpgraded: 2012-05-17 16:45:23,028 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: precise
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 9500M GS] [10de:0405] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15d2]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  JockeyStatus:
   xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
   pkg:sl-modem-daemon - Software modem (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
   xorg:nvidia_current_updates - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
  MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M51Sn
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-26-generic root=UUID=173acbf5-26a0-49e3-8d2b-f1c142582cbf ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-17 (36 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 12/24/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 303
  dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
  dmi.board.name: M51Sn
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
  dmi.board.version: 1.0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr303:bd12/24/2007:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnM51Sn:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnM51Sn:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
  dmi.product.name: M51Sn
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1
  version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

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