Re: How could we improve Time Machine and Spaces?
- From: Steven Fisher <sdfisher@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:25:32 GMT
On 2007-11-28 18:18:59 -0800, "G.T." <getnews1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
"Steven Fisher" <sdfisher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For spaces: I had two things, but now I have one. I hate the way it
switches spaces when you click an application on the dock.
Actually, I'm preferring that. Except for the fact that some applications
don't honor it and come over to the Space I'm currently in, like Photoshop
and SilverFast.
It's great until you drag a window onto another space using the view-from-above. Then weird things start happening.
Imagine you're working on two different major tasks. Now try this:
- Bind Safari to a screen and then open one (and only one) Safari window. Imagine you have some critical web application open that relates to your project on a screen, so use F8 (I think that's the default?) to show all your screens, and drag that window over to that project's screen.
- Switch to another screen and click the Safari icon on the dock. Despite it being bound to the original screen, it will switch to the screen where its only window is.
- Now open another Safari window. It'll open on the screen Safari is bound to, and Safari will switch to that screen.
- Switch back to the screen your first Safari window is on. Imagine you're working with some other application, and click on the Safari dock icon to bring Safari back foward. And... it switches to the other screen! UGH! I just can't get used to this behavior.
How do you switch? Arrow keys?
Actually, I usually used the dock. That's what made it really frustrating when it took me to the wrong screen and I had to try to remember how to manually switch! :)
My second wish was going to be for multiple modifier screen switching, but
it turns out that's supported now. Huh.
Huh? Over my head there.
Ctrl+Arrow is an unfortunate combination for programmers, since it's often bound to subword navigation (for instance, to MoveBetweenWordsInThis). The catch is that command or option arrow are both even worse; command right is usually "end of line" and option right is "next word."
But I found out you can require two modifiers: Just hold down the first one when opening the popup. For instance, I wanted command-option-arrow, so I held down the option key while clicking the popup. In the popup, I got control-option, command-option and option and choices. I picked command-option, and I've got what I wanted. I'm glad I tried this, because I hadn't seen it documented anywhere.
But last night after posting this I decided it wasn't worth the effort. Until the dock stops switching me to the wrong workspace, I'm just turning spaces off. It'll be great once it works, but right now it's just frustrating, and I did all of my computing before Leopard without it so I can definitely adapt.
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