First of all: thanks to you Marco for fixing this! @John Lea and the Canonical team What I do not understand is the politics behind some of the decisions here: 1) there is a huge number of users who want a change to the current state of things and gladly somebody had the abilities to implement these changes into code
2) The code is seemingly good enough that it can be packaged and made available for download 3) Considering the representative number of voters I would assume that there are a lot of people who would want to use these changes of the behaviour of the launcher's icons. 4) The designers and developers are always talking about making the unity desktop and Ubuntu a good and comfortable experience. 5) What exactly is comfortable in having to download an extra package (i.e. patch) to get some more functionality. If this will be done to every simple wish of the users you will have to call Ubuntu no "a system for human beings" but instead "a system for patchworks". Where is the problem of making this at least a configuration option? Like the option which makes you decide when the launcher disappears and when not? 6) If there are so many users voting for a change it is a blatantly impudent answer to make this a downloadable patch. Make this at least an option in Ubuntu. Some kind of checkbox or drop down menu option. A user invested some of his private time to get this fixed. He tried to help Ubuntu via this contribution. It is like hitting him, and everybody who voted for this bug to be fixed, in the face. Simply packaging the code and making it available for download is something for which Canonical's support is not needed; to make a thing downloadable, that is something which a user can make himself. People here voted for this bug because they saw the need for this to be implemented as this is an expected behaviour of the launcher which is not met. To click on an icon an nothing happen that is behaviour which is really unexpected. It makes the system appear as if there were something to working correctly. It was discussed above: you click on the launcher icon of an application which is already focused and nothing will happen. Well, wonderful! Among the bugs I have seen, this is the third bug now, for which many people voted and which is set to "Won't Fix" after a very long discussion. I am considering the possibility to post a bug request on launchpad: I want to get rid of the "this bug affects me" option, because it seems that voting on this option does not have any sense. Bugs get fixed and implemented when one or two persons vote for them, other bugs are not implemented at all, even if 100 people vote for them. You do not want anybody to vote: you ignore the votes. So please remove the option. It is better that way. You only disappoint the users who think that they can change something by voting for bugs to be fixed or features to be implemented. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733349 Title: Minimize Application's Windows upon clicking it's Launcher Icon To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/733349/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
