Comment 16 for bug 996604

> As others have already stated, this is simply false. Now that you know it, will you please return the status of this bug to High? Please?

Oh, right, somebody on the internet stated that's false, if that go written on the internet that must be true... </irony>

> The launcher replaces the taskbar by using Spread. Newbies don't get multiple workspaces (especially when Unity decides to put apps on them "automatically")

Not sure what you mean there. Unity doesn't put anything on other workspace, if it does that's a bug and "High" one in this case.

"Newbies" are you said might get confused by workspace, but how are your newbies changing workspace without noticing? Using the launcher icon? If so they probably know where they click and can click on it again ... it's also easy to explain them "if you click there you get an overview of what is running"

> hence we, Ubuntu evangelists, disable them so newbies don't flee back to Windows. If Spread is
> disabled when we, evangelists, make it easier for new users to stay on Ubuntu, what do you expect us to tell them? Learn to use
> workspaces and shut up?

You are just contradicting yourself there and confirming it only affects users who have somebody technical who installed their system and went out of this way to change that settings. Let's be realistic, there is no way a normal user would find how to change the number of workspace on a stock ubuntu install, there is no ui for that.

> Back to 5.10 for all my users while this is being fixed.

Hum, so it's working with unity 5.10, do you downgrade compiz as well? The bug is currently assigned to compiz, if that's an unity issue it should be reassigned