Folders for Mission Control Desktops

I think this would be a solution for seperate folders for Mission Control Desktops!
It would be very useful to be able to choose visibility for folders. What I mean is if I have different desktops on mission control then I could have separate folders for different desktops. I realize that if a desktop gets deleted this would cause problems and those folders would get deleted, but wonder if you created a mission control main folder where all folders on the hard drive are located and then you can go into that folder and choose visibility options. Like I have a school desktop and a work desktop so I could "right click>get info>" and  so I would choose ~/work_Desktop not just ~/Desktop. This would allow for people to literally feel like they had separate computers for work, personal, etc.. PLEASE consider this!! It would take mac to a different level and superior to PCs.
Do you think this would work?

This is intriguing, not least of all because the semantic problem of using the word "desktop" to refer to completely different things has made some people pretty grumpy
I use compulsively pushing the envelope of my work environment as a way to keep my scripting skills in shape, and so I couldn't resist doing a quick proof-of-concept to see if implementing what you want is possible without hacking anything that an average users shouldn't touch.  There's a very workable solution at the level of what I think of as "elegant band-aids."  I can see it would even possible to have it both ways - a desktop shared between all spaces and one that's unique to each space.
It is.  It's not even difficult - it requires understanding a few simple concepts, basic familiarity with Automator, enabling the root account on your system and about 5 lines of AppleScript that I've already written and tested.
I'm going to do it for my own use, but if anyone else wants it, just ask and I'll type up the instructions.  If enough people want it, I'll write a script to automate it.  lleH, if there's a clamor, I'll write an little app.  I can understand why Apple would choose not to implement it in the interest of elegance and simplicity, but also understand why expert users would like to complicate matters just a bit.

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