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[Adam Wojtowicz <733349@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I fully agree with Dave's use case from #351.

I like "spread" behavior that acts when multiple windows are open. In work I use Windows 7 and it has similar behavior (opens mini list) but I prefer how Unity works [1]. But Windows 7 allows me to minimize the window if it's only one and this is really comfortable. It serves double purpose:
 - allows you to acutally minimize the window to clear the desktop,
 - if I get lost in open windows allows me to quickly locate the window (during the minimizing transition) and I can easily re-click the same icon to have it open and activated, this sort of duplicates what the "spread" action allows me to do in a consistent manner.

Long story short: IMO minimizing a single active window with a click in
the laucher is a desirable behavior for me and is consistent with other
dash functions.

[1] The small improvement would be adding bigger letered titles to
windows minatures in "spead" for easier recognition but that's off-topic
here.

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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 Canonical Design:
  New
Status in Unity:
  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.

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