Comment 1 for bug 868423

I have a few concerns about this.

1. This mostly relates to discoverability. I think the workspace switcher is a pretty compelling feature, especially with the switch away from a task tray type design like we had in the panel to the launcher. Once you start to have a lot of windows open, it becomes really hard to manage them with just alt-tab and the launcher.... I'm a little concerned that without an icon there in the launcher, 99% of users would never even discover workspaces.

I don't think having it in the app lens most frequently used is really helpful in regards to this. I imagine most new Ubuntu users, would run several applications (Firefox, Banshee, LibreOficce, etc...) from the launcher, before they even open the Dash for the first time! After this happens, workspaces (which to me are a pretty key component of the unity experience), have become an entirely non discoverable feature to the user

2. A little concerned about users losing windows, and not knowing the keyboard shortcuts to navigate workspaces...(or knowing what a workspace is).

What is the rationale behind removing it by default? I can see that maybe it doesn't belong with the rest of the applications, as really it's more akin to say the Trash Icon, maybe it's behavior on the launcher should be tweaked. It should probably be removable, perhaps it should show up in the app lens. From my perspective we lose a lot more than we gain by taking it off the default view though.