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[John Lea <john.lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Luke,

This is a bug, the spread should not return all minimized to the 
restored state.  The correct behavior is:

1.    A application has 1 window in a restored state and 2 windows in a 
minimized state
2.    You click on the app icon in the Launcher
3.    All three windows are be displayed in a spread
4.    You click on one of the (currently minimised) windows in the spread
5.    The window you selected should shift to the restored state.  The 
other minimized widow should remain minimized when you exit the spread.

I hope this answers your question and we get this bug fixed sooner 
rather than later.

cheers,
John

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On 12/04/11 07:48, Luke Benstead wrote:
> 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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