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Mission control is a perfectly comptent exposé. My beef is elsewhere.

• ugh 15y ago
  All valid complaints, I think. It sounds like Apple made some very poor decisions when they re-implemented Spaces. I think their goal was valid (trying to make Spaces a feature everyone is able to use) and they went into the right direction, their attention to detail, though, was seriously lacking.
• timc3 15y ago
  Yes I think that they only designed this with one screen in mind, perhaps its likely that they think the future is one large display.
  • zaphoyd 15y ago
    With the focus on full screen apps I'd say their future is one small laptop/iPad display. Full screen / mission control brings us much closer to iOS style application switching which in fact does work well on the air and MBPs but is less useful on the 27 inch screens and downright worthless with two screens.
• stalf 15y ago
  No it isn't. Following up on your post, which is btw, great, I'd add Mission Control also breaks my use of Exposé. On Snow Leopard, most of the time, I used only one space and, as I've been using it on a 13.3" MBP, my windows were always using most of the screen and I usually have more than one window of a given app open at the same time (Finder or Text Wrangler for example). To see multiple app windows, my workflow was: 1. Swipe four fingers down (gesture for Exposé); 2. Select any window of any given app. Now, I must use Mission Control: 1. Gesture for Mission Control; 2. Select the app; 3. Gesture for Exposé; 4. Select my window. What used to take 2 steps, takes four.
  • ugh 15y ago
    Why do you have to do that? I don’t understand. I invoke Mission Control and select any window of any app, just like before. Two steps, just like before.
    • pkamb 15y ago
      Because windows are grouped into app bundles. In each bundle, windows are stacked on top of each other. Thus smaller hitboxes, obscured content, harder to select a particular window.
      • ugh 15y ago
        I guess I have fewer windows open? The hitboxes are huge for me and so far the tradeoff seems to be well worth it – at least for the way I use it. It’s certainly a tradeoff but for me personally certainly the right one.
• natesm 15y ago
  Not really. Exposé hasn't been good since Leopard. In Leopard, there were some simple rules. - Every window on the screen is fully visible. - Windows are sized proportionally. - Movement from the original position was as minimal as possible. Snow Leopard removed the second two by arranging all of the windows in a grid (iTunes is the same size as a tiny Adium window). Lion removes the first one.
  • ugh 15y ago
    It hasn’t been good for you personally. I was ok with the way it worked in Leopard (worse than Leopard, but ok) and I think Lion is a definite improvement over Leopard. Again, for me personally. Windows are resized proportionally and not on a grid, the overlapping windows haven’t been a problem for me and I actually like that apps are grouped together.
  • pkamb 15y ago
    Well put. Lion doesn't have an "all windows entirely visible" Expose mode, which will change my workflow immensely. P.S. There's a hack to change Snow Leopard Expose back to Leopard style. First thing to do on any SL install.