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[Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hey everyone, thanks for the interest to Ubuntu/compiz/that issue  and
sorry it's taking time to get resolved but comments are turning to
heated tone and insults at this point and that's often non
constructive...

quite the contrary it might finish by demotivating the people who are on
your side and want to see the issue fixed but are just overworked and
didn't find the time to get to work on that yet

So could you move the chit-chat to some mailing list or user forum?


That said for those who want to help to get the issue resolved we welcome help on finding a solution which restore the option without changing the existing behaviour for users:

Summary of the issue/precise situation:

- super-W is binded to "show wins from all workspaces"
- "show for all workspaces" has been wrongly hacked to do "show only from current workspace"
- "show from current workspace" is not used

* the issue with undoing the hack is that it would change the behaviour
of super-W for all existing user to work over all workspace when it's
documented to be for the current workspace and how it behaves at the
moment ...

* we can't "fix" those user configuration from the distribution side,
the packages are not supposed to temper user configs and even if we
could we have no garanty that the user directory is available (it could
be password protected or on a nfs server and non mounted at the time of
the upgrade)


@mniess did some suggestions in comment #136, thanks for that. 

I don't think the "prompt user about the configuration" is something we
wil do, that bug has 236 followers and some of you do care strongly
about the topic, but in practice the question would be in-appropriate
for 99% of Ubuntu users who don't care about that setting/don't use
it/don't know about it/like it the way it is at the moment/don't want to
be asked questions they don't understand on upgrade ... we believe that
the tradeoff would be in disfavor of the majority of Ubuntu users, you
might disagree but it's the calling we are making and we are discarting
that option

That let us with the "add yet another option to "really show all wins
for other workspaces included" or "find a better option that the ones
suggested" ... we would really appreciate if somebody can help and come
with a smart idea to solve the issue without breaking existing users or
bothering them on upgrade

thanks for reading

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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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