Re: Application-based launchers and multiple workspaces

[Julien Olivier <julo42 gmail com>]

Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 à 20:16 -0500, Daniel Falk a écrit :
> When I click the nautilus icon on the dash when there's another
> nautilus running on another workspace, it switches to that other
> workspace. This is a useful behavior when this is what you intend to
> do.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, it can also be jarring and disorienting when it's not.
>  Has anyone else experienced this?  I wish there were a better way of
> handling it.  
> 
> 
> Normally what I want to do is start up a new window for programs such
> as nautilus, the terminal, or my web browser if there's no window on
> the current workspace, otherwise switch to the window on the current
> workspace. I know you can ctrl-click of course, but you have to decide
> whether to ctrl-click or just click, and that basically involves
> determining not only whether it's running, but also whether it's
> running on the current workspace.  It's just not very efficient to
> have to pause to make this decision, and wipes out the convenience
> gained from offering one's favorite icons on the dash in a spatial
> fashion.
> 
> 
> I'm eager to get everybody's thoughts on this problem and whether
> there's a way to improve this behavior.

Actually, I feel the exact same thing about this. I even submitted two
bug reports about it here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650289
and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650030