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[Lonnie Lee Best <733349@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As much as I appreciate "any way" to accomplish this, I must agree with
Tal Liron.

To achieve this option, you must install additional software and a
regular use won't ever know this option exists.

Furthermore, this option should be the default for 14.04. Not one bug
report would be reported if this option were made default in the 14.04
release. No one would complain *period*. This should be given to
everybody. It is completely intuitive. Every other major operating
system does this by default.

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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:
  Fix Committed
Status in Unity Tweak Tool:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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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