GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 74971
Cannot minimize an application with Window List Applet
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The gnome 1 version was able to minimize an application by clicking on that application in the Window List Applet (the opposite action is used to restore or unminimize an application from the Window List Applet). The gnome 2 rarely works properly when trying to minimize an application from the applet.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72638 ***
Doh.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72628 ***
Just because this bothers me a little bit I want to make sure that this is the same bug. 72628 (now fixed?) seems like a regression of right click functionality (the menu) but I think this bug is about left click functionality. In the newer releases of gnome1.x when you left click on an item in the task list the app will minimize and clicking on it again will restore the window. In the gnome2 window list this does not work although it has worked a couple of times when I tried it so if the functionality is there it's broken. For reference Microsoft Windows 98 and up also have this same functionality but I think an IE upgrade gives the same abilities to Windows 95.