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[Christopher Townsend <christopher.townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok folks, I know this is loooong overdue, but we are going to put in as
an unsupported option to allow clicking the Launcher icon of single
windowed apps and minimize that window:)

By unsupported, I mean that functionality is "as-is" and no more tweaks
or enhancements to it.

Thanks for everyone's patience and comments on your desire for this.
It's good to see passion in the Community.

** Changed in: unity
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: unity
       Status: Won't Fix => In Progress

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Won't Fix => In Progress

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: unity
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Christopher Townsend (townsend)

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Christopher Townsend (townsend)

** Changed in: unity
    Milestone: None => 7.2.0

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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:
  In Progress
Status in Unity Tweak Tool:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

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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