I want to replace "Spaces" on 10.5.8 as my virtual screen/desktop manager.
Back in the 10.4 days, there were several virtual desktop managers. None that I saw was perfect; as far as I could tell, the fundamental problem was appkit assumptions about all windows being on screen. I've got several issues with Spaces now: 1. Window dragging across desktops: I cannot turn this off. I can not require that this only happens with a keystroke plus drag. It gets triggered by accident far too often. 2. Window moving across desktop by menu: Other VDM's let me right-click on a title bar to move a window to a different desktop. 3. Labeling desktops. 4. Hot Corners: While dragging windows has a several second delay, the hot corners of the display have a zero-second delay -- so this really gets triggered accidentally. 5. No way to bring all windows of an app to the current screen. "Window -> Bring all to front" only brings the current screen's windows to the front, and does not bring the windows on other screens to the front of those screens. 6. Spaces seems to have an assumption of "All windows of one app are for one purpose; offer to force all the windows to a single screen, but no way to remember the layout of specific windows to different screens". If an app can restore windows that were open last time, I want to restore to the same screens that were used last time, rather than everything on the one current screen. So, two questions: 1. Has anyone replaced Spaces on 10.5.8? What issues do you run into? 2. Does anyone know of a 10.5.8 compatible virtual screen manager that solves any of those issues? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
