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> decent attempt at fixing fullscreen and virtual desktops in Lion this year. I'm confused, because I found both of these things to be horrendous. Not trying t
by generalk 15y ago
> decent attempt at fixing fullscreen and virtual desktops in Lion this year.
I'm confused, because I found both of these things to be horrendous. Not trying to flame or troll or anything, just curious.
I liked the Spaces implementation in Snow Leopard. It had faults, but I could define a NxM grid of virtual desktops and rely on them always being there. In Lion I get a horizontal strip of N + (Number of Fullscreen Apps), no exceptions.
Which brings me to my next point: Fullscreen is entirely broken. There are two cases where I used fullscreen before, and Lion broke them both:
1. Fullscreen terminal windows. I don't want a logical "Space" for that, I just want a terminal that's the full width and height of my display, then I can Cmd+Tab to other windows (browser, etc) to bring them forward or back as necessary. Thankfully iTerm 2 lets me restore pre-Lion functionality here.
2. Video. I frequently fullscreen a video on my laptop display while working on a second display, and tell Quicktime to display on every desktop. In Lion, if I fullscreen Quicktime, it blanks my second display (seriously who thought this was a good plan?) and moves itself to its own space. VLC kind of covers for me here.
I'm just curious what you like about spaces and fullscreen in Lion, because I'm having difficulty thinking of anything good about them.