Hello Justin, The feature you are looking for would be available if Spaces worked with VoiceOver.
Other people have requested this facility, so why not write to Accessibility to ask for this? Cheers, Anne On 25 Sep 2010, at 01:49, Justin Ekis wrote: > Hi all, > > I have done very well in adjusting to the Mac by remembering the advice that > I was reading everywhere before I made the switch. Don't assume that anything > will work like it does on windows. Now, nearly two months into this, there is > only one windows behavior that I really miss. > > There are some applications that I would like to have running in the > background, but don't necessarily want their windows open unless I need them. > Let's take adium and skype as one type of example. I want to be available, > but unless I have an incoming call or instant message, I want them to stay > out of my way. If I am using a few applications, I don't want to have to > command+tab past things that are currently irrelevant. I've finally stopped > adium and skype from loading on login because they have become a nuisance. > > I was hoping that you could send applications to the doc, similar to the > system tray in windows. I see a hide option in the menu of most applications, > but this seems to be more similar to minimizing an application in windows > since command-tab brings it right back up again. Am I correct that there is > no way to do something like this, or am I just missing it? > > Thanks, > > Justin > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
