Public bug reported:
Specifically, Xchat is bugging me with this, but I've noticed similar
behavior in Tilda, I think Pidgin/Carrier, and some other programs as
well. When you click the icon, if the window is shown it is hidden,
otherwise it's brought to the front of the screen. However, this leads
to a slightly annoying effect, where if it IS hidden, I only have to
click it once to open it, whereas if it isn't I have to click it once to
hide it, and once again to raise it.
In other words, either I get in the habit of double clicking it, and
when I do hide it beforehand, it shrinks again, or I single click, and
nothing appears to happen. Considering it's already in the background,
there's no way for the user to see it shrinking. This is especially a
problem if, through the program itself (Tilda), or devilspie, the
program isn't displayed in the taskbar. To the unaware user, this could
be very confusing, and give the impression that nothing is happening.
When the user is aware of it, it's still annoying.
This could be improved by having the icon raise the window and give it
focus first, and only hide the window if it's the one that currently has
focus.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Hide/show windows should raise windows instead.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311682
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