what about real virtual desktop?

[samo]

this is just a fancy idea:
instead of all workspaces sharing same monitor-size 
desktop{picture+icons}, map one BIG desktop{ picture, maybe icons } 
to the set of all_ workspaces as one big thing; each workspace 
showing part of it.
i.e. if 4 workspaces in a 2x2, each workspace would show the relevant 
1/4 of it.

This may or may not include the icons as well - so they can be shared 
between all places, or each workspace has its own (sub)set...

Same way like A2 paper is being printed on A4 papers - cut into 
pages - so the workspaces will be just 'pages' of your desktop.
Hence the "pager" plugin will be really a pager.

And then, choosing a proper photography may put quite some sense in 
the "virtual desktop" - what stays where - i guess a notorious one 
will be to photoraph the chaos on your real wooden work-table and 
have that as background ;-)

"My terminal is where the sun shines..."

ciao
samo