On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:06 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad Beyenhof wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Carl Lowenstein > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just for my own edification, is "Spaces" a MAC OS-X application? > > > > Yes; it's a virtual-desktop implementation new in OS X 10.5. > > > >> If so, it seems a bit off-topic for KPLUG, but lots of other things > >> have been more wildly off-topic. > > > > Well, we're at least *comparing* it to how GNOME's Workspaces feature... :) > > I wouldn't mind hearing more of that, keeping in mind that you have to > be talking to me, rather than to one who is familiar with the OS X > environment.
Well, than I'll reverse what I said before. In Linux, you have a lot of control over which applications (and which windows) appear on which virtual desktops. The default is for newly-created windows to appear on the current desktop, regardless of the number and kind of windows that already exist elsewhere. It's very flexible, and it allows you to create desktops that focus on various *tasks*. If a particular app (for instance, a Web browser) has separate windows containing information for multiple tasks, it's simple to just have the various browser windows open on different virtual desktops. In contrast, Spaces on OS X is all about segregating *applications*. In the preferences, you can tell certain applications to always open their windows on a particular Space, but it doesn't get more finely-grained than that (like the Devil's Pie filters on window title, etc.). In addition, if an application is running, its new windows are always created on the Space it's already occupying. So, if your browser is open on Space 2 and you click a link in Space 4, you have to travel over to Space 2 in order to see the page rendered. Sure, you can move the different windows to separate Spaces after they're created, but new windows are always grouped together. This is a major pain, and it's why I haven't found any real use for the feature on my Macs. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. ~ Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- ) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
