Written by linuxlisa the 22 Jan 13 at 13:57.

Left-clicking on a launcher icon of a running application "spreads" all open windows of this application (if it has more than one window). Middle-clicking opens a new window of that application. Right-clicking shows the quicklist list of an application. So none of these mouse button clicks is available anymore for minimizing.

So why not just add an additional menu item 'minimize' in the quicklist of a running application?

On top of that, the minimize function should also work by left-click on an app's launcher icon if there is only one window of that app. Then the spread function will still work if there are multiple windows. I find this intuitive and logical. Because so far, if an app has only one window and you do a left-click of its launcher icon, nothing happens. For people who usually/mostly use only one window of an app (e.g. tab browsing in Firefox), the task switching would become much easier and faster.

Additionally, minimizing windows of an app should also work via shortcut/accelerator, e.g. Super + CTRL + M (minimize current window of current app) and Super + CTRL + Shift (minimize all windows of current app).

Left-clicking on a launcher icon of a running application "spreads" all open windows of this application (if it has more than one window). Middle-clicking opens a new window of that application. Right-clicking shows the quicklist list of an application. So none of these mouse button clicks is available anymore for minimizing. So why not just add an additional menu item 'minimize' in the quicklist of a running application? On top of that, the minimize function should also work by left-click on an app's launcher icon if there is only one window of that app. Then the spread function will still work if there are multiple windows. I find this intuitive and logical. Because so far, if an app has only one window and you do a left-click of its launcher icon, nothing happens. For people who usually/mostly use only one window of an app (e.g. tab browsing in Firefox), the task switching would become much easier and faster. Additionally, minimizing windows of an app should also work via shortcut/accelerator, e.g. Super + CTRL + M (minimize current window of current app) and Super + CTRL + Shift (minimize all windows of current app).