« Cellular Signal Amplifier
Angry Cat »

Thursday, September 7th, 2006Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Mac OS X Spaces

by Shawn @ 9:12 am · filed under Tech Stuff

Dude, I want this *really* badly now... I've been using fast user switching to create separate environments I can switch between quickly, but Spaces seems to be a much better solution.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/spaces.html

5 Responses to “Mac OS X Spaces”

  1. bphul Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 9:37 am

    you can have this now.

    check this out:

    http://virtuedesktops.info/

  2. chrish Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 12:05 pm

    “You do a lot on your Mac. So what happens when all those projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to organize all your windows into groups and banish clutter completely. A Space for everything and everything in its Space. Only with Mac OS X Leopard.”

    Or with every version of gnome or kde since 1999, and any other linux window manager i can think of. I love apple marketing.

  3. Alan De Smet Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    As chrish says: Welcome to the state of the art for Unix window managers ten years ago. When I first used Solaris in 1993 when I entered college, the department standard window manager (fvwm) offered “spaces” (although on Unix they’re typically called “virtual desktops”).

    Checking out the video, Apple has put their usual spit and polish on it. The popup showing which desktop you’ve moving to is a nice touch. The ability to move entire spaces around is also not something I’ve seen before. But everything else I’ve been doing for years.

    All that said, yes, this will rock. If you juggle a lot of tasks it’s a godsend. Desktop 1 is email and instant messenger. Desktop 2 is working on a project. I get interrupted with a rush priority bug fix: into Desktop 3 it goes. Someone wanders in and wants to discuss something, I use Desktop 4 to open a few files for discussion.

  4. Shawn Says:
    September 7th, 2006 at 2:21 pm

    Well duh… of course other stuff does it. But since I use my Mac primarily, I’m more happy about it doing it than Gnome. :)

  5. Daniel Wood Says:
    September 8th, 2006 at 7:32 am

    I’m actually pretty excited about this as well. I’ve been using http://virtuedesktops.info/screenshots/ for awhile now and find it very useful.

    I am glad that OSX will have this integrated.

Leave a Reply