Comment 2 for bug 768144

I understand your comment as: In step "4", the "upper-left" workspace slides into view to show the title-bar and the largest part of the application window, and the "lower-left" workspace containing the hardly visible bottom part of the application window, slides out of view.

This would be the correct behaviour, but that is not what is happening for me.

Actually the order of the workspaces is not important, whenever some small part of an application is present on the current workspace, selecting that application does not switch workspace to the one where the largest part of the application is present. You can also use super-W or Alt-Tab to switch to the application and get the same behaviour.

Btw, I'm running unity in virtual-box on a windows host.