Starting several applications in one go

[Jay Bee <jaybee444 gmail com>]

Are there any thoughts about leaving the overlay mode ON until
explicitly discarded?
I think it would be logical to be able to click the activities button,
add few new activities and then, by dragging & dropping, launch
several applications where I want them. After that I would close the
overlay mode by clicking at the workspace/pressing Winkey etc...
With current behavior every time I launch an app the overlay mode
closes and switches me back to where I launched the app.
It will also always do the zoom-in/out animation, and it gets kind of
tiring (even though it looks nice).
This (staying in overlay) would happen *only* if user _drags&drops_
applications to workspaces, clicking an application to launch it would
behave just like now with instant switch to the workspace.
What do you think about this?
Cheers