Comment 10 for bug 896709

Sebastian:
I don't personally minimise windows myself; I don't consider there is any real difference (functionally wrt to using the DE) between minimised windows and those that are hidden by another window. Some people do work this way however and I'm not sure that eliminating the feature completely would be a good idea.

The second click on the launcher icon does indeed do what I want it to: display all instances of a running application. The puzzle here is why it is not more obvious - once you know it, it then becomes "obvious". It actually goes most of the way to solving something that many people are finding awkward about the new environment. One reason could be due to the inconsistency in the way it works - A new user does not care if one of the instances already has focus or not - they might be expecting a double click on the launcher icon to bring up a selection list of all running instances. When something unexpected happens it may not make sense. Similarly, even an experienced user may not necessarily want the instance that is focused on with a single click; I know this puzzled me as it always seemed to bring the wrong window into focus.

Here's a thought that will improve the consistency of the interface, and make it intuitive and easy to use: If a user clicks on the launcher icon and there's only one instance of the application running, then of course that window should be given focus, but if there are multiple instances then that single click should _always_ show all running instances regardless of whether the focus at the time was one of the instances or another application.

This would make the feature simple to use and very easy to find, ie. "intuitive"

Chris