Comment 89 for bug 332945

Michael Rooney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>
>> But the windows itself could be minimised. Let's explore that. I
>> think it may be too late for Jaunty but I'll see what we can do.
>
> That is a really wonderful idea! I think this would solve a lot of the
> usability issues and also eliminate any bugs regarding z-ordering / focus
> issues.

While it may solve/mitigate some of the complaints. It will also
expose/aggravate a bug in Metacity with multiple workspaces. If a
window is minimized on one workspace, and the user is on any other
workspace, clicking on the window in the window list on the panel does
nothing other than flash the entry. The use has to be on the same
workspace the window was minimized on in order to restore it. I've
verified that this is still a problem with up to date Jaunty.

Reported here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571588

This is one of the prime reasons replacing Metacity with Openbox is one
of the first things I do after install.

Then there's also the fact that the default configuration of the window
list is to only show the windows for the current workspace. So, what
happens when a user is on workspace 1, the window opens minimized, and
then the user switches away from the workspace without noticing it? Are
we then going to set the window to be on all workspaces minimized?

It may just be me (though I seriously doubt it), but this seems like an
awful lot of effort for something that will only annoy users.

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Jamin W. Collins