GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 564626
Maximizing/restoring a minimized window does not show window
Last modified: 2018-01-24 13:46:07 UTC
When I maximize/restore a minimized window using the context menu on my panel's window listing applet, the window stays minimized. It should not.
0) Isn't the Windows List Applet a gnome-panel component? If so, might be a duplicate of that product. 1) A quick look here suggests the following (in 2.22): the context menu has two items a top: - (un)minimize - (un)maximize These two items seem independent. What this means, is that toggling (un)maximize on a minimized window changes a setting one will only notice after also toggling unminimize. It only looks like (un)maximizing doesn't do anything. It just doesn't do anything directly noticeable ... 2) I'm not sure what the merits of this part of the Window List Applet UI are. At first glance it is rather puzzling. 3) Anyhow, does this cover the problem of comment #0?
Created attachment 124757 [details] Double restore item Both "Unmaximize" and "Unminimize" are called "Restore" it seems. See the menu in the screenshot. This is after I minimized a maximized window. You can see two identical menu items, one of which does show the window, i.e. unmaximizes, while the other seems to do nothing, i.e. it toggles the maximized stated of the hidden window without showing the window. Fwiw, "Herstellen" is the Dutch translation for "Restore" — I'm not sure if this is a i18n issue (haven't checked in another locale).
Can confirm comment #2 regarding the translation of unminimize and unmaximize. The Dutch translation adds another level of confusion to this UI. Separate bug, I guess. Anyway, the troublesome item is the second item: Maximaliseren vs Herstellen. That's the item that doesn't do anything directly noticeable. By the way, could even be a libwnck bug. Cheked for dplicates there?
I already pinged vuntz about it.
uws: duplicate of bug #122640 (five years old, broader scope)?
Hrm, there are a few things here: + the translations are bad (in french too), which creates some confusion. On the other hand, I know it's hard to provide something better... + there's bug #122640, as already pointed out, which could solve the issue from a metacity point of view + libwnck could possibly unminimize when unmaximizing a window from this menu. The last item is the libwnck part. I'm not 100% sure we want to do this (we'd actually need to do it for move & resize too). So moving the bug to libwnck for further consideration, since there's already a metacity bug abou this.
About the libwnck stuff, can't we just disable the (un)maximize, move and resize option when the window is minimized?
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