Shift+Click, Super+Shift+[0-9] behavior is inconsistent

[Thomi Richards]

Holding shift and clicking on a launcher icon is supposed to launch a new window of the clicked-on application icon.
Holding Super+Shirt and pressing the launcher icon shortcut number (0-9) is suppose to open a new window of the desired application.

This used to work. However, it seems that more and more applications are either refusing to open more than one window, or instead are opening tabs within the main application window. This makes the bahavior inconsistent. For example:

d-feet: Works perfectly.

gedit: Used to open a new window. Now, if you're on the same workspace as an existing window, a new tab will be opened in that window. If you're in a different workspace, a new gedit instance will be opened.

gcalctool, devhelp: Used to open a new window. Now, shift+clicking the icon makes it wiggle (the urgent animcation) and nothing happens (it doesn't even raise the window if it's not on top already).

If we're going to support this shortcut, we should at least make sure it does something useful for all applications.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to make Ubuntu better. I can confirm this on both quantal and precise. It definitely needs one default action (opening new windows).