Thank you, James. I understand. I'm glad you mentioned the bug as this would most certainly have confused me when I attempted to use the Command+Alt key combination.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James & Nash Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What is Spaces and ... Hi Mark, I can't tell you what Exposé is, but here is my explaination of Spaces. But I'm sure others will also add better info for you. Spaces was introduced in Leopard and the ability it should give on Mac OS X has been a standard feature in many - if not all Linux/Unix based systems for a while. The feature allows you to use multiple desktop windows. For example, you can have one desktop window with your E Mail and web browser and another with your chat client. This is useful when you are doing more than one thing and you don't want to have everything in one window. The idea is that it should make you more productive, but unfortunately under Mac OS X, the concept is broken at least from a blindness/keyboard perspective. If for instance you press the keystroke to move to another Desktop window and you then use Command Tab to cycle through the open applications on this new Desktop you should only be able to see the applications that are currently running on that particular desktop. However, at present, Command Tab cycles through all applications regardless of which Desktop they are on. There is also an issue where I think if you open a new window for a running application which is running on another Desktop then the new window will open on your current Desktop. I have heard that you can work around this by selecting certain applications to open in certain Desktops which is an option but it should not work this way - at least this is my understanding. As I have said, under Linux/Unix, this feature works correctly and Apple have said that they are having some trouble fixing it, but perhaps the Accessibility folks are not the ones I should be talking to about it. Anyway... I hope this helps explain what the feature is and what it should do. Take care James ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Taylor" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:22 PM Subject: What is Spaces and ... > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
