So, it seems that every time I switch workspace, Spaces helpfully decides that I want Finder as the front most application. How useful.
This makes Spaces a waste of space.
Dear lazyweb, which virtual desktop system is useful?
It doesn't do that here. It doesn't affect the stacking order of the windows at all.
By the way, in the Spaces overview you can drag windows between workspaces. If you hit 'C' it'll collect all the windows back to the current workspace. Which has nothing to do with your question but someone might find it amusing
Personally I like You Control : Desktops but I havent upgraded to Leapord yet, so YMMV.
- Stevan
Almost every X11 Window Manager I've used manages to get this right. Perhaps if Steve Jobs had looked at a Unix after 1987 for the base of the new OS....
Re:Not Mac OS X
pjm on 2008-03-01T06:29:48
Yawn...
is it a bot in your head that generates this stream of bilge or is it a butt?Re:Not Mac OS X
chromatic on 2008-03-01T07:10:04
If Our Jobs had intended us to control windows by licking candy-like widgets, he wouldn't have included a mouse and keyboard.
Re:Not Mac OS X
Aristotle on 2008-03-01T16:08:04
You mean Spaces does the right thing in your opinion? Congratulations, you’re the first person I’ve seen talk about it who is happy with how it works.
Re:Not Mac OS X
pjm on 2008-03-02T23:18:57
Err, no: can't see anywhere I said Spaces worked the way I would like it to. Try reading the rest of chromatic's comment (and then contextualize using every other comment/blog-entry he's made on the subject since realising that OS X isn't isomorphic to linux).
Re:Works fine for me
nicholas on 2008-03-05T00:14:00
Ah! I think that the "problem" is that I don't have any windows open on the other space, so Finder gets brought to the front. Then when I switch back, Finder remains the active application, and one of its windows is brought to the front. If I start another application there, then all is happy, and nothing (visibly) gets restacked. But this still irritates me - why does Finder need to be swapped to the front if zero applications have windows open? Still smells like a design bug - with or without Spaces it's quite viable to have an application running with no windows open, and Finder doesn't muscle in on that application and shut it out.
Re:Works fine for me
brian_d_foy on 2008-03-05T00:54:34
Well, I like that Finder comes to the front of an open Space. That's my new way to switch to the Finder and not have anything obscuring the desktop.:)
