I'm replying both to the bug, and to the Ayatana list, about the suggestion exemplified in the mockup at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/58399971/Launcher%20d.png First, thanks David for a very interesting idea, and for expressing it in a series of mockups that let people get a visual handle on the suggestion, that's a good technique and facilitates discussion of the design. For now, we'd prefer to keep workspaces confined to a single icon on the launcher. We do want to improve the experience folks have when they use that icon, however: - by default, in Natty this will do a "desktop spread" showing all the windows on the current workspace, rather than the Maverick behaviour of showing all the workspaces. This is to accommodate the fact that most people only use one workspace, and everyone starts out that way till they activate the others. - you will be able to jump smoothly between workspaces in this view, and move windows from the current workspace to any other workspace very easily. - however, we will limit the number of workspaces to 4 in Natty, with experimentation under way for more workspaces in line with the interactions we support in Natty. I do like the idea of being able to drag a window directly to a workspace, and we should consider whether dragging the launcher of a running app could be used for that. A question, though - would dragging the launcher move ALL the windows of that app to that workspace, or just the most recently focused window? Mark
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