When I click the nautilus icon on the dash when there's another nautilus
running on another workspace, it switches to that other workspace. This is
a useful behavior when this is what you intend to do.

Unfortunately, it can also be jarring and disorienting when it's not.  Has
anyone else experienced this?  I wish there were a better way of handling
it.

Normally what I want to do is start up a new window for programs such as
nautilus, the terminal, or my web browser if there's no window on the
current workspace, otherwise switch to the window on the current workspace.
I know you can ctrl-click of course, but you have to decide whether to
ctrl-click or just click, and that basically involves determining not only
whether it's running, but also whether it's running on the current
workspace.  It's just not very efficient to have to pause to make this
decision, and wipes out the convenience gained from offering one's favorite
icons on the dash in a spatial fashion.

I'm eager to get everybody's thoughts on this problem and whether there's a
way to improve this behavior.
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