program launcher design bug?

[Matt Galvin]

On 5/17/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > 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....

++, I find this especially annoying with apps like gimp b/c lets say
you open gimp by right clicking an image and say Open With... Gimp.
Now Gimp starts up with 3 or more windows, each of which are treated
as completly seperate windows as far as gtk/metacity is concerned so
now we have to not only move gimp to the indented workspace where it
should have started to begin with, we have to move 3+ seperate
windows(for the same app) to the desired workspace.

Just my 2 cents.

Matt

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