unity launcher scale function has reverted to current workspace only

[Doug McMahon]

The default thru natty and until recently on 11.10 has been to pull all windows of a window group from ALL workspaces when left clicking on a launcher icon
The new behavior is to only pull from the current workspace if there is more than 1 window of that group open, all other windows of that group on other workspaces are ignored.

There were 2 related bugs in natty that opposed each other, the first one was fixed (though not directly), and describes what is the default in natty and was in O
Bug #707214

This one was the complete opposite, never fix released but is representative of the current behavior -
Bug #689733

Obviously only one can be the intended behavior - which one?

If it is now intended to only pull from current workspace than at the very least you need to free up the key binding in the scale plugin for window picker for window group
Obviously I believe it should pull all windows from ALL workspaces of the clicked on app (window group

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.2.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43lp760131v201106060906-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,text,place,vpswitch,fade,move,resize,regex,cube,scale,rotate,unityshell,scaleaddon]
Date: Sat Jul 16 22:04:29 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-03 (13 days ago)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

see bug 690143 as well, it could be related and might help with the issue you are facing.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

All in all the current behavior mixed with the fix to bug 690143 is the intended behavior.

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

Marking invalid. This is how the design is specified. The design team can be reached on the ayatana design mailing list. Sorry :)

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Well I guess it's clear then the way it does work in natty it no longer the intended action in 11.10+
If so then it would be useful if you could free up the binding in scale - it can not be set.
I assumed in natty it couldn't be set because unity was using it from the l. click, apparently that is no longer the case -
Bug #820639

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

And - I'm also going to assume that the ayatana design decisions don't extend to unity-2d?, where it continues to pick from all ws's

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

unity-2d dev might not have found the time to look into it but in the
end both are supposed to have the same behavior where possible,

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Well, - this is now working again in unity 4.12.0-0ubuntu1

So either this is an unintended happening that will be reverted or there was a change of heart here
The other possibility is some confusion of terms, ect.
This bug & similar I've filed in 11.10 & 11.04 when it broke for a while are the 'spread' - left click on launcher icon using 'scale' - window picker for window group

Hopefully this will be left as is, it's far superior to only picking from the current workspace.