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Bugs you can vote for regarding window switching / minimized windows:
Please add list of running windows of an app, to its launcher icon
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/740862

Natty: Unity launcher buttons should allow to minimize apps, not just
launch/restore
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349

very hard to distinguish/select text documents in the expose window
spread
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/734253




Am Dienstag, den 12.04.2011, 07:48 +0100 schrieb Luke Benstead:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I've been using Unity on my main desktop for a few days now, and I'm
> getting incredibly frustrated with the behaviour of switching between
> multiple windows of the same app. Say for example I have three windows
> open, and I minimize two of them I can't find a way to get to one of
> the minimized windows without restoring them all. Am I missing
> something obvious?
> 
> What I'd like to happen is clicking the launcher should display all
> three open windows, and when I select the one I want, those that were
> minimized should remain minimized. The problem extends when you
> consider that all 3 windows may be minimized, in which case clicking
> the launcher restores all of them! I can't think of a single occasion
> where I'd want that to happen.
> 
> Is there any chance of getting this behaviour looked at? It's making
> Unity unbearable, as I'm continually re-minimizing windows I don't
> need.
> 
> My recommendation would be that if you have more than 1 window open,
> clicking the launcher button would display all the windows and then
> all but the selected one would return to its previous state. This
> would make the behaviour predictable, it took me a while to figure out
> what the current logic actually was!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Luke.
> 
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