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[John Lea <933776@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@desgua; that's because it is the current implementation, and people
generally don't comment if they are happy with the status quo.

We had *a lot* of requests from the community to make the change
described in bug #689733, so this debate is really is 6 of one, half a
dozen of another.

If we were to change the behaviour around to what it was before bug
#689733 was implemented I guarantee we will have an equal number of
people complaining that "I use workspaces to segment tasks/areas of
life/contexts, for example I have one workspace for personal stuff I use
in my lunch break, another workspace I use for work, and another
workspace dedicated to the report I am working on.  I use workspaces so
that I can focus on the task at hand, please don't always display
windows from other workspaces that I am not currently using."

The issue is that there are several valid different ways of using
workspaces, and we don't want to make a change that will inconvenience
all the users who requested that we make the change described in bug
#689733 in the first place.

This is why this bug requests that this behaviour is made configurable
in System Settings:

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"- In the short term what we can do is expose this option in 'System
Settings / Keyboard / Shortcuts'. We can add two new actions to this
panel:

'Spread all windows on the current workspace' (default setting: Super+W)
and
'Spread all windows on all workspaces' (default setting: Disabled)

and then it will be easy for users to choose the behaviour that suites
them best."

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Can you see any alternative means of making all classes of workspace
users happy without introducing this configuration option?

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Title:
  [regression] scale/spread: "Initiate Window Picker for All Windows"
  does not show all windows. It shows only windows from curent
  workspace.

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