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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Daniel Moore
<danielmoore73@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.

Have you tried mnrl's PPA at comment
#382<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349/comments/382>
?

As for users like me who wanted to keep 12.04 until the next LTS comes out,
I could only get this feature to work following the instructions of this
very well explained post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2093170&page=2&p=12407469#post12407469
and
replacing the version numbers by the more recent ones. Yes, it is quite a
tedious method, and it installs lots of other features along with it. But I
found that was worth it.

I hope it helps.

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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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