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. <estela...@hotmail.com> wrote: > 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 bring a window up quickly and then minimize again just > as quickly with a single click and without moving/targeting the mouse to > another area of the screen. So, after a year of Not having minimise I thought > I lost that muscle memory, but yea it was there alright, just felt natural :) > > I think everyone should give the little patch a try and see if they like it > or not. > > > > From: m...@jonathanfrench.net > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:20:35 +0100 > To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: [Unity-design] Minimize on launcher icon click > > 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 unintuitive. My patch makes that case > minimize the window instead, and also provides a quicklist item to do so, for > the case of multiple windows. I've attached the patch, and you can install it > from my PPA, ojno/unity-minimize-on-click, here: > https://launchpad.net/~ojno/+archive/unity-minimize-on-click. I've tried to > make a screencast to demonstrate it but my only Precise install atm is in a > virtualbox, and I can't get any screen recorders to work. Maybe someone else > could post one. > > When I first released this it was covered on WebUpd8 > (http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/unity-with-minimize-on-click-patch.html) and > OMGubuntu > (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/how-to-minimize-apps-to-the-unity-launcher-in-ubuntu-12-04/), > but I decided to hold off on this email until Precise was released, given > you all must have been busy testing. Great release, btw. Mostly. ;) > > Please reconsider the wontfixing of this. It's a tiny patch, doesn't > interfere with Spread or anything else, and makes window management much > easier. > > Thanks, > Jonathan French > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : > unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : > https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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