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[Matthew Orres <matthew.orres@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree name-calling is not helpful, but I'd like to add myself to the
ever-increasing number of folks who wish this to change.

If Shuttleworth and/or Ubuntu developers are marking this as "wont-fix"
just to make sure they're not taking design cues from anything Windows-
related as a pride thing, I'd say that is a misguided thought to say the
least. But, out of respect for the Ubuntu team I will assume they are
merely waiting for more feedback from the community.

So, here it is. It's an entirely helpful UI action that can be added
relatively easily (and right now, nothing happens once a window has been
maximized, so clicking-to-minimize doesn't subtract anything does it?)
and helps quite a few folks (myself included).

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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 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.

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