Currently when an application is launched (for example using the Run application
panel applet) it pops up in the workspace that is active when it really starts,
possibly a few minutes after it was launched; it would be preferable to display
it in the workspace that was used to launch it.
After some investigation of the sources, it appears that gdk_spawn_on_screen and
its variants (gdk_spawn_command_on_screen, gdk_spawn_on_screen_with_pipes) are
used to launch commands.
Replacing these by a wnck_spawn_command_in_workspace would make applications
start on the workspace they are expected to.
I can write this function if you like, what do you think?