[Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Jonathan French
Hi all, A month or so ago I wrote a patch for Unity that implements this wontfixed request which was made more than a year ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349. The issue is that clicking on launcher icons with a single window of that app open does nothing, which is very uni

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Den 30. april 2012 19:20, skrev Jonathan French: > Hi all, > > A month or so ago I wrote a patch for Unity that implements this > wontfixed request which was made more than a year > ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349. > > The issue is that clicking on launcher icons with a s

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Nekhelesh
@Jonathan French, I like your idea and I like that instead of complaining you wrote a patch to help the Ubuntu community. Unfortunately, this cannot be officially accepted into Ubuntu for the following reasons (my personal speculations), 1. Ubuntu 12.10 and onwards will have the new Unity sp

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Connor Carney
Click-to-minimize breaks the fundamental concept of the unity launcher: clicking on an application indicates that you want to use it. Hiding the application when you want to use it is exactly the wrong behaviour. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Nekhelesh wrote: > @Jonathan French, > > I like

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Omar B .
Well I was one of those that "thought I Didn't need" the patch/functionality till I tried it. Now I feel it does speed up my workflow. The new spread design will have the CLOSE button, which is great. but it doesnt do anything to help get windows out of the way easily. it just feels nice to b

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread shane lee
I'm unsure of this. Surely the only reason you would have to minimize is if you wanted to use a window below the one you are using (a terminal, for example). It is just as easy to click the icon of the app you want to use and bring it to the front as it is to click on the one you were using to mini

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Ryan Gauger
Why can't we do what Windows or Mac OS X does? I'm not saying that we should necessarily copy them, but there is an easier way to select between multiple windows of one application on both of them. Thanks! In Christ, Ryan Sent from my iPod On Apr 30, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wro

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Ryan Gauger
But why would you want to click the app icon if it is already pulled up? I understand if there are multiple windows of the same app, but why not implement what Mac OS X or Windows does, like I said in a previous email. You would get much more functionality if Unity acted like Mac or Windows, or

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Ryan Gauger
I agree completely. Why move the mouse to another area of the screen when it really is not needed? Thankd! In Christ, Ryan Sent from my iPod On Apr 30, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Omar B. wrote: > Well I was one of those that "thought I Didn't need" the patch/functionality > till I tried it. > > Now

Re: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click

2012-04-30 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/04/12 15:39, shane lee wrote: > I'm unsure of this. Surely the only reason you would have to > minimize is if you wanted to use a window below the one you are > using (a terminal, for example). If that was the case then simply middle click the t