Lion's Mission Control: UX fail, especially for multiple displays

Re:Lion's Mission Control: UX fail, especially for multiple ... by idan on Thursday July 21, 2011 @06:17AM (#2789007)

Properly configured, the old Spaces was a passable replacement for virtual desktops, with some caveats.

I always had a 4-space, one-row layout. Wrap-around worked, but the animation was a bit confusing at first (it lets you move "right" past the last space, but the animation shows you moving three spaces to the left). I never used Spaces to move between spaces, keybindings and mouse gestures accomplished those. I only entered Spaces view when I wanted to move windows from one space to another.

If I had to use the mouse every time I wanted to change spaces, I'd stop using it too.

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Re:Lion's Mission Control: UX fail, especially for multiple ... by div on Thursday July 21, 2011 @07:38AM (#2789128)

I know you can change spaces through shortcuts, my problem was I could not e.g.:

Be using chrome in space 1, hit a shortcut and move to space 2 while at the same time moving my chrome window over to space 2.

This took 2 minutes to set up on Ubuntu and I used it constantly.

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Re:Lion's Mission Control: UX fail, especially for multiple ... by kd5bjo on Thursday July 21, 2011 @07:49AM (#2789155)

If you change spaces with the keyboard shortcut while dragging a window, it will come to the new space with you.

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Re:Lion's Mission Control: UX fail, especially for multiple ... by elfred on Thursday July 21, 2011 @10:33AM (#2789618)

cmd+ctrl+arrow used to send a window to a space.

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Re:Lion's Mission Control: UX fail, especially for multiple ... by Symmetry on Thursday July 21, 2011 @02:41PM (#2790685)

But does it send your view to that space as well? If it doesn't that's slightly less convenient when you're trying to move that window one space, and more inconvenient when you're trying to move multiple spaces.

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