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Damn, you beat me to it. I love how this guy is _such_ an apple fan yet he isn't familiar with Spaces. There's a lot of these ill-informed and vocal mac fans

Damn, you beat me to it. I love how this guy is _such_ an apple fan yet he isn't familiar with Spaces. There's a lot of these ill-informed and vocal mac fans out there that give the rest of us a bad name.

tialys 18y ago
Forgive me, but spaces doesn't have the nifty cube does it? I think he just likes the 'eye candy' that comes with Compiz (which, btw isn't enabled by default).
- crescendo 18y ago
  I don't think so. He goes on to describe the enhanced productivity of using multiple workspaces, as if the same cannot be accomplished on a mac.
  - tialys 18y ago
    That's what he's saying though is that he likes 'the cube' as a feature, not the ability to have multiple desktops. That, or I'm misunderstanding. I do know though that when I show people my ubuntu box they go NUTS over the cube so I think that is really what he's trying to show. It's nifty!
    - Timothee 18y ago
      > "I thought to myself: this could increase productivity so much. Even with my huge Apple monitor, I'm always needing to move things around when I’m deep in a project." No really, he doesn't know about Spaces. Overall, I agree with the article doesn't go anywhere. He likes some things that exist on Mac too, he doesn't like other things (command line) that are on Mac too. He doesn't seem to know enough about what he's talking about to give any interesting insights on his test.
- evgen 18y ago
  Actually, the rotating cube effect started with the OS X fast user switching feature and was "borrowed" by a lot of virtual desktop systems like Compiz or the OS X virtual desktop apps "Desktop Manager" and "Virtue Desktops". Since Apple already uses this visual effect for changing users it is not going to use it for switching desktops and therefore went with a different visual effect -- if you really like the effect you can get it with the previously mentioned third-part virtual desktop apps.
  - thwarted 18y ago
    OSX had 3d rotating cube fast user switching in 2002? Most likely it was "borrowed" for that from someplace else. http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/oldnews.php http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/oldnews.php
  - nailer 18y ago
    Like thwarted said, 3D desktop was doing this on Linux back around 2002, before OS X had multiple local users.. You'd zoom out, the cube sat in the middle of the screen, about 75% of your monitor, rotate, then zoom back in. It was a little flickery, but damn cool, and worked on the KDE setup I had at the time.
- ashu 18y ago
  Actually the cube is a usability trap. I had to disable it because it increased my workspace switching time a lot even when I had increased its rotation speed. It looks cool, but gets in the way unfortunately.
  - nailer 18y ago
    Its a trade off: increased spatial awareness versus a few fractions of a second. Compare most office suites, which now smoothly show when new rows or columns are added to a spreadsheet for the same reason - animation shows you what's happening, and where its happening. It's a lot easier for people to get the concept that they have another desktop around the corner, than that they have another desktop on an abtract flat plane.

tialys 18y ago

Forgive me, but spaces doesn't have the nifty cube does it? I think he just likes the 'eye candy' that comes with Compiz (which, btw isn't enabled by default).

crescendo 18y ago
I don't think so. He goes on to describe the enhanced productivity of using multiple workspaces, as if the same cannot be accomplished on a mac.
- tialys 18y ago
  That's what he's saying though is that he likes 'the cube' as a feature, not the ability to have multiple desktops. That, or I'm misunderstanding. I do know though that when I show people my ubuntu box they go NUTS over the cube so I think that is really what he's trying to show. It's nifty!
  - Timothee 18y ago
    > "I thought to myself: this could increase productivity so much. Even with my huge Apple monitor, I'm always needing to move things around when I’m deep in a project." No really, he doesn't know about Spaces. Overall, I agree with the article doesn't go anywhere. He likes some things that exist on Mac too, he doesn't like other things (command line) that are on Mac too. He doesn't seem to know enough about what he's talking about to give any interesting insights on his test.
evgen 18y ago
Actually, the rotating cube effect started with the OS X fast user switching feature and was "borrowed" by a lot of virtual desktop systems like Compiz or the OS X virtual desktop apps "Desktop Manager" and "Virtue Desktops". Since Apple already uses this visual effect for changing users it is not going to use it for switching desktops and therefore went with a different visual effect -- if you really like the effect you can get it with the previously mentioned third-part virtual desktop apps.
- thwarted 18y ago
  OSX had 3d rotating cube fast user switching in 2002? Most likely it was "borrowed" for that from someplace else. http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/oldnews.php http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/oldnews.php
- nailer 18y ago
  Like thwarted said, 3D desktop was doing this on Linux back around 2002, before OS X had multiple local users.. You'd zoom out, the cube sat in the middle of the screen, about 75% of your monitor, rotate, then zoom back in. It was a little flickery, but damn cool, and worked on the KDE setup I had at the time.
ashu 18y ago
Actually the cube is a usability trap. I had to disable it because it increased my workspace switching time a lot even when I had increased its rotation speed. It looks cool, but gets in the way unfortunately.
- nailer 18y ago
  Its a trade off: increased spatial awareness versus a few fractions of a second. Compare most office suites, which now smoothly show when new rows or columns are added to a spreadsheet for the same reason - animation shows you what's happening, and where its happening. It's a lot easier for people to get the concept that they have another desktop around the corner, than that they have another desktop on an abtract flat plane.