4 ms·

I'm honestly surprised and disappointed that all they appear to have done is Sherlock Rectangle. Stage Manager was the most interesting and useful thing to hap

I'm honestly surprised and disappointed that all they appear to have done is Sherlock Rectangle. 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...

thiht 2y ago
> 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.
- cjk2 2y ago
  it's bloody terrible on the ipad too. I tried it with my studio display for a day and it was like wrestling a raccoon all fucking day.
cassianoleal 2y ago
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?
- BenFranklin100 2y ago
  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.
  - cassianoleal 2y ago
    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?

thiht 2y ago

> 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.

cjk2 2y ago
it's bloody terrible on the ipad too. I tried it with my studio display for a day and it was like wrestling a raccoon all fucking day.

cassianoleal 2y ago

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?

BenFranklin100 2y ago
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.
- cassianoleal 2y ago
  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?