The workspace switcher is another strange one. In Gnome the workspace switcher icon showed a mini-preview of the window layouts. In Unity this is just a static

The workspace switcher is another strange one. In Gnome the workspace switcher icon showed a mini-preview of the window layouts. In Unity this is just a static icon made to look like a mini preview! This seems cargo-cultish, as though the Unity developers don't understand what they are trying to recreate.