This is a minor irritation, at least afaik: I'd fix it if I could AND saw an easy way to.
I live by the Fedora workspace switcher -- probably the most valuable applet I have, because it's so easy to set and forget. I have canonical spaces for my terminal (with several tabs, my other most used applet), my default browser (one that can handle long URLs, meaning Firefox or Seamonkey unless I'm missing a good third one), one other (varying) browser, my newsreader (All hail Pan!), and a space right below it for writing posts. There are also several usually free spaces scattered among those, so that I can bring up anything else conveniently, and see the canonicals out of the corner of my eye.
I also upgrade every day, and reboot whenever there's a kernel change. I suppose I should close the canonical applets, but I often don't. Then when the reboot finishes, they all show up on the upper left space, and I have to rearrange them. IFF, and I do mean only if, it would be easy to make them launch where they were before, that would make the workspace switcher even more valuable.