Re:OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment
by adamjernst on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @01:24PM
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I doubt it was intentional. DVD Player went from using their own custom full-screen code to the new system standard full-screen mode (as evidenced by the full-screen button in the title bar). This probably let them delete hundreds of lines of code; it also causes the problems you mentioned.
Be patient; I'm sure they'll fix it soon.
I don't think we'll see any sanity return to this BTW. The very foundation of Full Screen is made in such a way to make it conceptually difficult to fix. All these problems stem from the decision that full screen should ALSO throw you into another new space, which makes it incompatible with the old workflows of having other apps running on the other screen.
It was such a silly decision (to support "swiping" I guess?) Full screen already existed before, all they should have done is update the iLife/iWork apps to support the old full screen and encouraged developers to do the same. Instead they over engineered this complex system of spaces (a feature that only PRO users are used to BTW) and broke old features. I really don't understand it.