With a click you can disable the ‘Workspace Switcher’ item, used to navigate between the four workspaces Ubuntu provides by default, and add a ‘Show Desktop’ item for quickly hiding windows to access files or folders on the desktop.

Both options were previously available to Ubuntu users via the ‘Experimental’ section of the Compiz Config Settings Manager.

The ‘Workspace Switcher’ checkbox arrives ahead of a planned UI change in Ubuntu 13.04 that will disable the item by default.