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[Maga Laan <magalaan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Designers seem to have declared war on minimizing. Elementary OS and
Gnome even removed the minimize-button. Many want to make the PC more
like Android and eliminate the difference between close and minimize.
After close the state is preserved in memory for quick reopen. We see
that music apps keep on playing when closed.

I have nothing against that. But the PC differs form a phone and tablet
because it can show many windows in the same time. What I find annoying
is that when I open a new app, I have to hide the other window manually
not to have a cluttered interface. I find it distracting when pieces of
other windows are sticking out.

I would want to suggest a more profound solution: I call it AUTOMINIMIZE

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Whenever an app is opened hide all other visible windows automatically! 
Of course this is not always wanted, and that is why I suggest to change the minimize app in a pin-app to prevent it from hiding. I would also like this behaviour when changing apps with alt-tab or dock. 
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Only show the apps that is called. To make it perfect you could make
some apps pinned by default. This way we do not need to minimize  any
more and this would also work fine on a mobile devices as well. Witch is
important as Ubuntu is pursuing to , create a unified interface for
mobile devices and desktops.

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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 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.

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