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I'm not a fan of what they are doing with the App Store (with the notable exception that everything you buy on the App Store is licensed for all your Macs, with

I'm not a fan of what they are doing with the App Store (with the notable exception that everything you buy on the App Store is licensed for all your Macs, with possibly a limit of 5). However, I find "Mission Control" to be perfectly usable. The name is a little dumb, but it's basically just expose with multiple desktop switching added in. What's the "all flash" part you are talking about?

fiblye 14y ago
With Spaces+Exposé, I could do two buttons presses to quickly see every window in every space. Mission Control removes this ability and instead stacks windows, making it harder to find what I'm looking for. Snow Leopard would easily let me select an individual window in another space with one click, while Lion either requires me to slide several times, pick the window, and do an app-only Exposé, or select a space, use Mission Control again, then select a subwindow. It kills productivity. Additionally, Mission Control is simply much more laggy-feeling. I could easily switch between apps and spaces with no hesitation in Snow Leopard. In Lion, for whatever reason, it was that decided it was important to eliminate this in order to do a fancy slide effect. Lion also gives you the ability to set a unique wallpaper for each desktop, which is nice for some people, but it forces my computer to refresh the items on my desktop each time I scroll into another space.
- espes 14y ago
  https://github.com/espes/fixexpose https://github.com/espes/fixexpose
- gurkendoktor 14y ago
  Mountain Lion has a checkbox to ungroup applications in Mission Control. It's basically like 10.5 Exposé with an added spaces bar at the top, and a background that shrinks for some reason.
  - fiblye 14y ago
    I'm glad they decided to give us some choice. I just wish they'd done it from the beginning.
    - gurkendoktor 14y ago
      I usually don't mind when Apple tries out a new direction. It seems several of their products have taken two steps back to (try to) make a big leap afterwards, like iMovie and Final Cut Pro X(?). It's only terrible because Apple forced all users to their Revision A software. Axing MobileMe and iOS development tools before Mountain Lion cleaned the mess up wasn't a nice move.
unconed 14y ago
Mentally, I always think of multiple monitors consisting of one space. Mission Control ruins that by displaying each space on each monitor separately, so windows that are side-by-side on different monitors no longer appear side by side in Mission Control. This is a huge mental disconnect. There's also various annoyances: * You can't drag a window from one monitor to another using Mission Control, even though it will highlight the space you're trying to drop on. * You can't move Space 1 to another spot or remove it, for no particular reason. * When activating mission control from a fullscreen app, it shows the windows from Space 1, yet you have to swipe left to go to Space 2. * It forces you to have different backgrounds per space/monitor, even if you don't want to. Changing your background globally is a huge pain.

fiblye 14y ago

With Spaces+Exposé, I could do two buttons presses to quickly see every window in every space. Mission Control removes this ability and instead stacks windows, making it harder to find what I'm looking for. Snow Leopard would easily let me select an individual window in another space with one click, while Lion either requires me to slide several times, pick the window, and do an app-only Exposé, or select a space, use Mission Control again, then select a subwindow. It kills productivity. Additionally, Mission Control is simply much more laggy-feeling. I could easily switch between apps and spaces with no hesitation in Snow Leopard. In Lion, for whatever reason, it was that decided it was important to eliminate this in order to do a fancy slide effect. Lion also gives you the ability to set a unique wallpaper for each desktop, which is nice for some people, but it forces my computer to refresh the items on my desktop each time I scroll into another space.

espes 14y ago
https://github.com/espes/fixexpose https://github.com/espes/fixexpose
gurkendoktor 14y ago
Mountain Lion has a checkbox to ungroup applications in Mission Control. It's basically like 10.5 Exposé with an added spaces bar at the top, and a background that shrinks for some reason.
- fiblye 14y ago
  I'm glad they decided to give us some choice. I just wish they'd done it from the beginning.
  - gurkendoktor 14y ago
    I usually don't mind when Apple tries out a new direction. It seems several of their products have taken two steps back to (try to) make a big leap afterwards, like iMovie and Final Cut Pro X(?). It's only terrible because Apple forced all users to their Revision A software. Axing MobileMe and iOS development tools before Mountain Lion cleaned the mess up wasn't a nice move.

unconed 14y ago

Mentally, I always think of multiple monitors consisting of one space. Mission Control ruins that by displaying each space on each monitor separately, so windows that are side-by-side on different monitors no longer appear side by side in Mission Control. This is a huge mental disconnect. There's also various annoyances: * You can't drag a window from one monitor to another using Mission Control, even though it will highlight the space you're trying to drop on. * You can't move Space 1 to another spot or remove it, for no particular reason. * When activating mission control from a fullscreen app, it shows the windows from Space 1, yet you have to swipe left to go to Space 2. * It forces you to have different backgrounds per space/monitor, even if you don't want to. Changing your background globally is a huge pain.