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Re:Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes by w1ntermute on Monday January 31, 2011 @08:32PM (#2164033)
Not for the vast majority of OS X users. Sure, many of the tech-savvy Mac users I know use it, but none of the laymen do. And it's the laymen that Apple's primarily targeting, because they're a much bigger market and much easier to satisfy.
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Re:Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes by YooLi on Monday January 31, 2011 @08:50PM (#2164081)
Not necessarily true or they would have stopped shipping things like the terminal.app a long time ago (or including python, ruby, etc.). Even apps like Automator are probably out of the scope of 'laymen'.
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Re:Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes by jarek on Monday January 31, 2011 @09:45PM (#2164196)
I'd wager that Terminal.app requires a lot less maintenance work than Spaces.
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Re:Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes by meese_ on Monday January 31, 2011 @10:33PM (#2164320)
Especially considering how many basic features it is missing...
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Re:Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes by aphyr on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @01:26AM (#2164693)
A working pgdn key, for example.
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Re:Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes by stuhacking on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @05:23AM (#2165092)
I only use it as a cheap way to mentally background apps that won't be looked at as often (e.g. iTunes, running a server in Terminal).

I find that the focus model tends to break down in Spaces for any multi-window application like Finder, Chrome, Emacs and Terminal. If every window of an application is going to jump to the top then that just adds extra work to switching desktops.

That being said, I do like the Application->Window switching model on it's own and wouldn't trade this for Virtual Desktops.

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