On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:33 AM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:57:20PM -0700, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
>
> >I know precisely what you mean. Spaces seems mostly about segregating
> >applications, but there are many applications (Web browsers, chat
> >clients, etc.) whose windows can and should exist independently on
> >separate desktops. If you click a link in an app in Space 1, the
> >resulting page opens in whatever Space your browser is currently using
> >instead of creating a new window in the current Space.
>
> The two that annoy me most are Acrobat and the finder.
>
> The thing is, to me OSX's grouping of the windows associated with an
> application is by far the single most significant aspect of the UI that
> makes it so much easier to use than Windows. I guess that aspect does
> occasionally get annoying, especially with Spaces.
>
> To me, what would fix it is if Spaces were really just a bigger desktop,
> instead of trying to switch desktops. I liked CodeTek's Virtual Desktop,
> but it didn't work as well with applications. I suspect that spaces odd
> behavior is part of making it work with everything better.
>
Just for my own edification, is "Spaces" a MAC OS-X application? If
so, it seems a bit off-topic for KPLUG, but lots of other things have
been more wildly off-topic.
carl
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