Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by epicide on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @09:07AM (#16324438)

You can accomplish (mostly) the same thing with Spaces on Mac. Granted, I don't believe you can really script any of it. All manual, but it still works pretty well for me.

Some days I still really miss dwm, but having Photoshop, Ableton, and several other things Just Work™ makes it worth it.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by syrrim on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:16AM (#16324912)

The problem with spaces is that any time you cmd-tab between spaces, those spaces will be repositioned relative to each other to be adjacent. This also happens whenever a window opens a dialogue that forces you to switch to it. This means that you can't reliably keep spaces in a strict order.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:11PM (#16326622)

You can disable this behavior in

System Preferences > Mission Control > Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by epicide on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:59AM (#16325298)

I have never seen either of those things happen. I even just tested the first one.

Perhaps it's a setting or was the behavior in an older version of macOS?

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by dredmorbius on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:46PM (#16327415)

If I alt-tab between apps, or open a new window in an app from a particular space, I'm warped to wherever OSX very wrongly thinks I ought to be.

Motherfucking maddening as hell.

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