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[Daniel Moore <danielmoore73@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forgive me for starting the comments in such a way, I am simply tired of
seeing the Ubuntu team make poor choices in terms of functionality. Some
can be good and some can be bad but unfortunately right now the bad out
weigh the good.

> And this feature is still available "by users" for at least >= 12.04,
and given that your first comment starts with "PLEASE PLEASE
PLEASE!!!!", it doesn't sound like your posts are of any help here as
you say in "doesn't help this issue".

Please direct me towards a PPA that i can install to allow this feature
for 13.10 or 14.04, that is if you can which i highly doubt is possible
without having to build unity from scratch.

> Also, you got something wrong there, this is not supposed to be a
"forum" where anyone posts his/her useless opinions, this is supposed to
be a *bug tracker*.

Honestly i don't really care what its called. The point of the matter is
to comment on the situation and make it a bigger deal. I know that the
Ubuntu team has decided that they will not fix this issue but if we
continue to heat this argument then maybe that will change, but sitting
here complaining about how other people are wrong isn't helping
anything.

The point of this discussion is to help the Ubuntu team understand what
we find is wrong with the current functionality and how they can go
about fixing it.

> Though commenting here won't have any effect on the official versions
of Ubuntu anyway, Canonical has decided it neither likes the proposed
feature nor does it like customization.

I cannot help but feel you are missing the point of this conversation
entirely. If there is a problem and no one talks about it or makes any
comments about how there is something wrong, does that problem ever get
fixed? NO!

Please add reason and persuasion to your comments and MAYBE the Ubuntu
team will see this and decide to attempt a fix.

best regards

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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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