ease of use: plank, multiple workspaces and applications
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Bug Description
After using the luna daily builds for quite a while, there's a thing I run into at least a few times everyday: the way plank handles running applications, when using multiple workspaces.
At it's current state when you click on a running app that's not open in your current workspace, plank instantly jumps you to the open window. In some applications that require one instance running (e.g.: Noise, USC, Switchboard, etc...) it's fine, but as for web and or file browsing this behaviour reduces productivity by quite a bit.
Take an example:
When I use my notebook, I usually have at least three workspaces open one for work one for web browsing and another for music, youtube, etc.
All three have at least one browser window and one file manager window open. To achive this with the current settings i have to open three browser windows in the first workspace then individualy move them to their respective workspaces.
Anytime I want to open a new browser or file manager window I have to go through the same process.
Suggestion:
Have a list of apps (including web browsers, file managers, maybe others) that behave differently by not jumping to the last opened window, but runing a new instance when clicked on at another workspace.
description: | updated |
summary: |
- ease of use: plank, workspaces, applications + ease of use: plank, multiple workspaces and applications |
description: | updated |
Changed in elementaryos: | |
assignee: | nobody → elementary UX Team (elementary-design) |
Well, you know, having different behaviour depending on the application will probably cause confusion to the user. How come some work in a way and some in another?
For your situation, do you know that middle-clicking an app in plank launches a new instance of that app? That could solve your problem :)