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[Peterson Silva <peterson.235@xxxxxxxxx>]

"That's what it does in Windows 7, for some applications but not others:
for example, it works for Windows Explorer, but not for Windows Backup."

What an inconsistency oO

"It's not what it does in Mac OS X, at all:"

Sorry, I've never used a Mac, but as all the docks out there which try to
copy it somehow have this behaviour, I assumed that it was there where it
came from.

"Unity will soon have something very much like this."

Awesome! =D But then with only one window will it minimise after clicking?

*Peterson*
*http://petercast.net*



On 9 December 2010 14:12, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Peterson Silva wrote on 08/12/10 15:01:
> >...
> > So the thing is, if you have only one instance of an active window and
> > you click its icon in the Launcher, the effect is useless. Users coming
> > from Windows 7 (or any other version of it for that matter) or Mac OS
> > will expect the application to minimize;
>
> That's what it does in Windows 7, for some applications but not others:
> for example, it works for Windows Explorer, but not for Windows Backup.
>
> It's not what it does in Mac OS X, at all: clicking the launcher of a
> running application always brings all its windows to the front, and if
> they already are, it does nothing.
>
> >...
> > So here's what we could do, then: to have different effects based on
> > the windows opened, but with a visual hint so the user knows what to
> > expect (and can easily understand the point of the behaviour). I'm not
> > currently using Unity, but as far as I remember, there's no visual hint
> > as to whether or not there are multiple instances of a window opened.
> > We could put a small emblem over the program icon in the launcher (like
> > in one of its corners) with a number indicating the number of windows.
> >...
>
> Unity will soon have something very much like this.
>
> - --
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
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