Re:macOS Sequoia Preview
by cassianoleal on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:57PM
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I disabled Stage Manager after trying it out for a week or so. How the hell does that thing make any sense? Really, this is a legit question. How is that thing useful?
Re:macOS Sequoia Preview
by BenFranklin100 on Monday June 10, 2024 @11:05PM
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The use case for myself is when I have to focus on a specific task/project and I have three or four applications I need to alternate between. It’s quite useful for that. Once the task is completed, I turn it off.
Re:macOS Sequoia Preview
by cassianoleal on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @04:07AM
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Thanks! If you don't mind me asking, how does it help? What's the workflow with it, that couldn't be achieved without it?
> Stage Manager was the most interesting and useful thing to happen to window management in over a decade
… really? I’ve tried to use it a few times but it’s just… not good. Not very intuitive, full of idiosyncrasies, and it doesn’t solve the basic "I want to snap 2 windows side by side" problem. Maybe it’s more interesting on iPad?
I’m glad they finally bring window snapping to Mac.
Stage Manager was the most interesting and useful thing to happen to window management in over a decade, and I was really hoping we'd see Apple do more with it. Its dynamic nature (windows don't always live in just a single context!) solved a lot of problems inherent in Spaces, and yet there's still plenty of room to build on its foundation.
I was hoping we'd at least see the window snapping behavior ported over from iPadOS. It's a really well-thought-out way to simplify window resizing and overlapping, and it would go a long way on MacOS (perhaps with a toggle in Control Center for those edge cases where you actually want pixel precision). Maybe in MacOS 16...