Indicators do not raise application in other workspace

[Jason Warner]

When I am in workspace 1 and have banshee in workspace 4 (or any other workspace than my current workspace), clicking on 'Banshee' in the sound indicator wiggles banshee in the launcher but does not switch workspaces to banshee. I would expect it to switch me to the workspace with Banshee and raise Banshee to have focus.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Don't think it's an unity fix only (should be some compiz and indicators?).

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

We can't fix this this cycle as it requires some fundamental changes to the protocol applications use in focus stealing prevention.

[John B (j200477)]

I use Ubuntu 12.04 and have the same problem. If I click on a link in thunderbird, and firefox is open on a different desktop, it opens a new tab in firefox but does not switch the focus to the desktop firefox is in. Focus stays on thunderbird.

Related to this, is there any way to cause a new instance of firefox to open in the current desktop when a link in thunderbird is clicked, as opposed to a new tab opening in the firefox on a different desktop?