GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 105365
"Show Desktop" is not "Minimize All"
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Description of Problem: This is a very annoying 'feature' in metacity that when doing "Show Desktop", and you unminimize a window all the windows unminimize. Now before you say anything, i read the Changlog and how it was done to "not confuse the user", but it is a very annoying. The reason is, that someitmes when using multi-windowed applications, like GIMP, Glade, Dia, and many more, it comes in very handy to be able to minimize all of the windows and then only bring up one or two, and not all 20 of them. Especially if it is to drag somthing from the desktop and a nautilus window. Another case this can become annoying is when working with the desktop (moving files, unmounting cds etc..), and a dialog box, or somthing of the sort (like a download that just started, or a copy dialog, or an error message) and all of the other windows pop up. I do not see how the user can get 'confused' by this, it is a very common feature in other DE even Windows. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Set up the keyboard shortcut for "Show Desktop" 2. Open a number of unmaximized windows 3. Click the keyboard shortcut for "Show Desktop" 4. Click on a window from the tasklist Actual Results: All of the windiws unminimize Expected Results: Only the 'clicked' window should unminimize How often does this happen? Always.
This bug is a dup, there's another one in here somewhere with some discussion of the issue.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92335 ***