program launcher design bug?

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Tue May 17 19:12:29 UTC 2005


> Hi,
> 
> One of the great features of linux is the multiple workspaces. Even if
> you have multiple applications open at the same time, they are not all
> over each other and are easier to find when you use several
> workspaces.
> 
> But when you decide to launch an application, say openoffice.org or
> firefox, and that it takes more than 0.5 seconds to launch, most of us
> decide that we have something to do with another application in the
> meanwhile. For example, you start writing a mail in evolution. But
> what usually happens then is that the application you just launched
> comes to the front of your workspace, even though you launched it in
> the next one.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if the application stayed where I told it to get launched?
> 
> Evan

Plus one, would love to this implemented as well...

The other day started Gimp on Workspace #3 (which is where I always put
Gimp), and used it to make a screenshot in workspace #2. Took me 30
seconds to find out that the resulting Gimp image was put in WS#2 not
WS#3....

--
Vince





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