Comment 6 for bug 656517

This affects the usability for me in a big way as well. My scenarios:

* I use irssi with a custom gnome-terminal profile called IRC. I create a launcher to launch it, click on it and it starts (good). I click on my terminal launcher to launch a normal terminal (eg for coding), and my IRC window is raised instead of a new terminal window. In other words, I have different gnome-terminal profiles for different contexts. Granted, at least with gnome-terminal I can go to File/Open Terminal and select the profile I want, but this is annoying

* I use firefox with the profile manager and have a desktop file with:
Exec=firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote %u

In non-Unity, clicking on the desktop file would bring up Firefox's profile manager window, and I could choose between my work profile, my home profile and my bank profile. In Unity, on first launch I am presented with the Firefox profile manager (good), but if I click the launcher again my currently open firefox window is raised instead of me being presented with the profile manager. As such I must close my currently open firefox, then click the launcher, then choose the profile I want to use (firefox does not provide a method to start another profile from within itself). I do not want to mix my online banking, my personal profile and my work profile. I typically have two totally different browser contexts open at the same time-- one for monitoring of systems and one for work. The current situation prevents such functionality.