Hi there Mark. I hope your well.
To answer your question, I will give the following explanation. Spaces Spaces, like inLinux, called Workspaces, are simply put, new desktops. So, consider this. Your in a office, and you have four work desks at your disposal. You use each work desk to house different types of work you would like to keep track of. Say, one work desk is for fun, one is for viewing handouts, one is for viewing requests given to you by your staff, and another is for piling up work that needs to be done. This is this same in regards to Spaces on the mac, and the OS Snow Leopard. By default, four spaces are activated, once you enable the spaces function in Expose and Spaces within System Preferences. Once you enable Spaces, by default, Control + Numbers 1 through 4 will control what space your currently working on, or using. YOu can also have Spaces Menu show up in the Status Menu Bar, where Time Machine, Airport, your current time, and Bluetooth Icons are housed. Currently, I use spaces for having different areas. I only use two personally, I only use two spaces currently. I use Control + 1 for Space 1, and Control + 2 for Space 2. So, Space one, if spaces is enabled, is alays hte default space you will be on, when you start up your mac. If you leave your computer on, and your working on Space 2, you will return to that particular space once your Mac wakes up again. I use Space 1 for Chat, and Internet, while Space 2 is used for documents that I am editing, creating, or reading.. Think of Spaces as a way to narrow down cluttering of your desktop to keep things organized. Expose The best way I can sum up Expose is by saying that is a manager of multiple windows. To my knowledge, we can access Expose with VO, but are unable to tell what window is currently being highlighted, and what window is being selected. It is basically used so that you are able to see what windows you have open for that current application, or all windows you have opened, so that you can navigate to it more quickly. I hope this helps. Take care Fonzie On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:22 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > While I am sure this has been posted many times over, I'm afraid I > can't > find the answer and so I ask, what is Spaces? > > Also, what is Exposay? > > Thank you. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 7:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: spaces in snowleopard? > > > James, you bet I've been lobbying for this now on and off. Well okay > more on, but the point is I would actually use it and I think the > important thing is to show Apple that not everyone is a mouser and > there are those sightlings out there who use the keyboard and thus are > keyboarders. :) > > On Aug 31, 2009, at 8:43 AM, James & Nash wrote: > >> >> Hi Scott, >> >> Although I do not have my new Mac yet - I am using Windows at the >> moment as >> my old Mac broke and I had other reasons for moving away from Mac >> befoer >> coming back. >> >> Anyway... >> >> I have written to Apple in the past about this, and you may be >> correct that >> it may not be a widely used feature, but I will continue to write to >> them as >> well. >> >> Take care >> >> James >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Cc: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS >> X by >> the blind" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:33 PM >> Subject: Re: spaces in snowleopard? >> >> >>> >>> WIll opening the seed to more folks would not necessarily catch more >>> issues. Apple has a very diverse team of testers. As to your other >>> question, no at this time it is not possible and I strongly >>> encourage >>> you to write to Apple about this. Trust me, a lot of folks would >>> like >>> this to change and it would benefit sighted folks as well. It makes >>> me wonder if the issue is that people are not really using Spaces >>> and >>> so it is not a priority perhaps. >>> >>> On Aug 31, 2009, at 6:51 AM, william lomas wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> In snowleopard, can one set up spaces and then press command tab to >>>> switch between applications running in the current space? >>>> I heard that in leopard if one attempted this, and they had say 2 >>>> aps >>>> in space 1 and three in space 2, that command tab would cycle >>>> through >>>> all the applications in both spaces, not just in our 2 examples >>>> focus >>>> on the 2 programs in space 1 and the 3 in space 2, if this makes >>>> sense. >>>> Apple have known about this problem not working for 2 years now. I >>>> also feel that if the beta program were open to more of us these >>>> apparent voice over bugs in SL would have been erradicated as it >>>> is, >>>> getting stuck in menus etc. should have been noted in my opinion >>>> and >>>> would have been if the software was riggorously tested. >>>> Just my opinions, >>>> Will >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
