Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

[Julien Olivier <julo42 gmail com>]

> >  - Favorite apps should only be highlighted if they are running *on the
> > current workspace*.
> >  - Clicking on the icon of a favorite app already running on another
> > workspace should launch a new instance of this app instead on
> > switching to the currently running one on the other workspace.
> 
> I don't know if I'd like that.  For terminals, that would definitively
> be an improvement over the current behavior.  For most apps, I'm not
> sure.  And for several other apps, that simply won't work.  For example,
> there is no way to have more than one Skype instance running.
> 

Well, what I really mean is that gnome-shell should *try* to start a new
instance. If the application is single-window, it will work as before:
the app will be presented to the user. So, for example, if you had skype
already running on another workspace, gnome-shell would execute the
"skyp" command, and skype would do what it already does: present the
existing window.