On Jul 22, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Matt Penna wrote: > I think this has been discussed at (great) length elsewhere, but… > > I am coming at these problems as a user of a desktop Mac equipped only with a > mouse and keyboard, thus gestures are not available to me. I'm not convinced > that's the source of the problems, but I would be happy to be proven wrong! > > While there are a couple of things I like about Mission Control in Lion, I > think in many ways the concept is an absolutely egregious step backwards. I > have serious problems with the way Exposé now works. > > What I really like about Mission Control is how it groups an application's > windows together along with the app's readily identifiable icon. But I don't > find this particularly useful on its own, because App exposé cannot be > invoked from here (unless I'm missing something). By mousing over an app's > grouped windows and using my mouse's scroll wheel to move up, the windows > spread out slightly. This works acceptably (though not ideally) for 2 or 3 > windows, but I utterly fail to see how this is useful when there are 5 or > more windows open at one time in a given app. They do not spread out nearly > enough to provide a clear indication of the contents of each of the windows, > nor to easily select the desired window. Would it not have made more sense to > invoke app exposé at this point to display every window in the application, > free and clear of any other windows? > > The fact Mission Control does not display minimized windows seems to be a > horrible oversight. Now when I minimize windows into an application's dock > icon, they are essentially out of sight and out of mind unless I switch to > the app and invoke app exposé; they do not show up in any other context. I've > already found myself losing windows by forgetting that they were already open > and minimized. I sincerely hope this gets fixed. > > The removal of the ability to invoke app exposé by clicking and holding on > the dock icon seems to be a mistake
You can click and hold or right click with mouse (or with magic trackpad, two-finger tap to bring up contextual menu), then select Show All Windows - does that work for you? > . With Mission Control an ineffective way to find one window among many, I > need to invoke Mission Control first, switch to the app, and then invoke app > exposé to find the window I want. Too many steps to accomplish what could > formerly be done (in most cases) in only one step just by invoking Exposé, > and the negative impacts on productivity and ease of use are pretty > noticeable. > > I also just noticed that some applications that keep records of previously > opened documents such as Pages and iChat now display the list of recent > documents when left-clicking and holding (or right-clicking) on the dock > icon. That's actually fairly useful, but when invoking app exposé, these > "recent" documents are displayed almost identically as if they were open, > minimized windows. This seems to introduce a lot of clutter to an interface > that was originally intended to help you find relevant windows quickly; I > don't see the point of displaying documents in this interface if they were > last opened days, weeks, or even months earlier. > > At this point, Mission Control seems to be little more than a visual task > switcher; it tries to replace Exposé, but in my opinion, it fails in almost > all respects and is simply not very useful if you have even a moderate number > of windows open. App Exposé itself has also been made less useful, IMO. > > I have some other gripes about Lion (I don't think I care for how Spaces > works now, for example, and I find the lack of contrast on window title and > status bars to be rather difficult to read) but to me, Mission Control and > Exposé represent major design problems. > > Should I feel differently? Am I doing something wrong? I just option clicked an app and of course, that hides all other apps - including all the apps that were in my other spaces. Anyone know how to restore those spaces with their respective apps all at once? (I can click on the individual apps, one at a time, in the dock, whereupon the app will be activated). I didn't realize option-clicking would hide apps in spaces other than apps in my current space. One thing I radar'd is an issue where you can be in one space and all of a sudden be blocked by a modal alert that is occurring in another space. Being modal, you can't do anything until you hunt it down and dismiss it. -K > > Matt_______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
