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[Daniel Moore <danielmoore73@xxxxxxxxx>]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!

Ayatana design team, development team, whoever is in charge of
overseeing this subject!

I beg of you, in the nicest way i can possibly ask, please fix this
issue. This single issue is the bane of my existence, i cant seem to
adjust but i was able too in 12.04 BECAUSE it had this feature. This was
the key feature that made me turn away from windows and even mac because
it was a complete system, it had all the functionality that i needed to
be very very productive. I EVEN HAD ONE OF MY COLLEGE PROFESSORS TRY
THIS OUT, EVEN HE SAID IT WAS AMAZING! but now this feature is gone and
i find Ubuntu clunky and hard to use because of all the screen clutter
that exists. Like the bug description says, that design would be
perfect, but if that is too hard to implement, at least give us the
benefit of the doubt by just adding this feature to single windows
instead of a window stack. I can try to live with this and id be more
than happy to return to Ubuntu.

This shouldn't be hard to do since i had this implemented on a 13.04
install but it was buggy cause unity didn't agree with this modification
so ultimately it was unusable but regardless this feature would make
14.04 perfect. I know i speak for a lot of people when i say that this
would be ideal in terms of functionality. I already feel that unity is
nice in that it offers a different desktop experience but one that is
well thought out in terms of functionality, however this one simple
issue, to me, has caused its use to be "difficult" even new users find
it hard to use because they normally come from windows and mac and say
why doesn't the launcher minimize my app, that doesn't make any sense!
Then they tell me they don't like it and want to go back to windows,
myself included.

So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! I will join a design team if i have to,
i will gladly contribute to this cause, i am a computer science graduate
so i know i can at least be of some assistance.

Also kudos on the integrated menu, i was amazed by that cause i didn't
think there was a way to make it better, but you continue to amaze. Now
if we can just get this one little tiny thing in there it'd be PERFECT!

Thank you Ubuntu team for all of your hard work in designing probably
THE nicest desktop environment in the world, and to make it even better,
its free! for this i thank you!

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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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