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[Jamu Kakar <jkakar@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chow,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 27/03/2012 05:56, Jamu Kakar wrote:
>> Less desirable, but only minimize the windows on the current
>> workspace, instead of on all of them.  This way at least an accidental
>> "Show Desktop" invocation doesn't make me have to go to all my
>> workspaces and bring things back to life.  Also, in general, I want
>> things I do on the current workspace to be contained there.  I wonder
>> if that attitude should be used to inform these kinds of design
>> patterns?
>
> In Oneiric, when I activate the "Show Desktop" option from Alt+Tab (or the
> keyboard shortcut), switching to the next workspace brings back all my minimized
> windows, even on the workspace I activated it from.
>
> This might be a side effect of the "Show Desktop" plugin, which sends windows to
> the corners or sides of the screen rather than minimizing them, though. Maybe we
> should have this plugin enabled by default.

The behaviour has changed since Oneiric.  I didn't encounter this
behaviour before running Precise (or I suddenly became sloppy with
Alt-Tab after upgrading ;).

Thanks,
J.