Unity hiding open LibreOffice files

[Jim Byrnes]

On 02/04/2013 05:29 PM, sktsee wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:55:51 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>
> [snip]
>>
>> I do see a problem if the open document is moved to a different
>> workspace (is that what you mean by virtual desktop?).  In that case
>> when I double click it in nautilus the LO icon in the launcher jiggles,
>> but that is all, and it only does that the first time.  It is not
>> limited to LO however, I see the same issue with pdf documents opened in
>> Document Viewer.
>>
>> I don't know whether this was a design decision or a bug.  Does anyone
>> know?
>>
> Design decision I believe. It's non-obvious, but when the launcher
> "jiggles" you'll notice that the little arrow to the left of it will turn
> from white to blue. I've no idea what these ui elements are called, but I
> think the blue arrow/- means there's some window event for that
> application that requires attention. Clicking on the LO launcher now will
> switch you to the LO instance that has the document open and the arrow
> returns to white again.
>

I never noticed that, but it does seem to work. While looking into this 
I noticed that if you are in one workspace for apps you have open in 
another workspace the white arrow changes to a greater than symbol ">".

Regards,  Jim