GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 139445
Application Still Visible in Workspace Switcher Despite (Show Desktop Pressed)
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I found that after opening numerous applications and clicking on the show-desktop button, the applications would minimize, but they would still appear open within the workspace-switcher applet. This behavior seems contrary to the workspace-switcher's normal behavior upon minimization; for if one minimizes an application manually, that application will hide itself in the workspace-switcher applet.
I think, show desktop means, just Hide the Windows. even the tool tip says just 'hide all the window'. I think there is a difference between minimizing all windows and hiding all windows, though it might be the same effect. But when u click any window or click the same button again, u can see all windows in their previous state itself. But this is not the case there i think. So i feel the behaviour is correct. Since it just changes the color in the WS applet to indicate the hidden behaviour. Feel free to comment on my thought... :-)
While I can appreciate your rationale for its current behavior, I must admit that it still seems rather counter-intuitive for the applet to behave as such. I say this because, at least using Metacity as a WM, one does not have an option to "hide" a window; rather, one can only "minimize" a window to achieve such an effect. For this reason, I think it would be best for behavior to be congruent to Gnome's default window manager, Metacity. In the end, the decision rests in your hands; I leave it up to you to decide.
I tend to agree with the original reporter. Letting a hidden window be a different thing from a minimized window when there's no other way of hiding them than using the show desktop button seems strange to me.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105665 ***