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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Currently the Unity launcher in Natty does not offer any way
to restore minimized windows if another window from the same
application is opened (the scale plugin is invoked instead,
considering only non-minimized windows).

I suppose this is because it's just an alpha, but what is
the intended behavior in the final version?

Making the scale plugin include minimized windows the same
way it includes non-minimized windows, I think it's a bad
idea. Minimized windows are in a different state and that
should be visually shown.

I'm attaching an ugly, made-in-five-seconds mockup with a
suggestion: when an icon is clicked in the launcher and some
windows of the app are minimized and some are not, the
launcher shows the minimized ones as icons below.

That way the user knows which windows will be restored and
which ones will be just focused when selected.

It also gives less trouble to compiz by not asking it to
generate previews for minimized windows.