Comment 14 for bug 863399

I have to agree on this one. Desktops are meant to keep things separate while the new switcher puts them all together again. This is totally counterintuitive and in my opinion a severe usability regression. In my specific case, I have several terminals open in every workspace but I know exactly on which desktop is each of them (they're kind of logically grouped by activities). So with the old behavior the terminal I want is only a few clicks away while with the new behavior I have to:

1) click alt+tab (as was pointed out before, it doesn't make sense anymore to move to the right workspace)
2) use alt+left or alt+right until the terminals group is selected
3) click alt+down to ungroup the terminals (or wait that it happens automatically)
4) move closer to the screen in order to figure out which terminal contains what (this is really painful: how am I supposed to recognize a terminal from its thumbnail???)
5) navigate to it using, again alt+left or alt+right

all this takes a whole lot of time and clicks.

So, this problem combined with

1) the fact that I have no way of knowing in which desktop I am (unless I type some other shortcut and wait for the related animation to complete)
2) the fact that I have no way of knowing how many and which windows I have open on the desktop I'm in (unless, again, I type some other shortcut and wait for the related animation to complete)

drops considerably my productivity.

BTW
is this the right place to discuss such things? bugs are normally intended as implementation mistakes but here the design itself is wrong (always IMHO).