Comment 17 for bug 868423

An update on the situation: To my understanding the intention is definitely not to kill workspaces (and they should be fixed for keyboards as well now). The thing is that the current ws switcher button in the launcher is highly dangerous to novice users. I've on two different occasions watched family members being "trapped" in it, unable to figure out how to get out.

I wrote a proposal on the unity-dev list on how to do a long term solution of the more general problem of giving access to some of the more advanced features of the wm/system: See the "RFC: syslets" thread here https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-dev/msg00438.html