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Bettertouchtool move space6/24/2023 Other OSes had tried similar ideas to Spaces before, but Apple’s implementation always had some bells and whistles the others didn’t, and indeed still don’t.įirst and foremost, Apple’s implementation has always been very visual and spatial - spaces are logically arranged in a row. The first version of spaces simply gave you the option to have multiple desktops, but you didn’t get multiple instances of all four things, as you move from space to space, only one thing changes, the collection of windows you see - you still have one background layer which is shared by all spaces, one dock, and one menu bar. Apple tried to solve this problem in a very simple way - if everyone’s one single desktop is too cluttered, why not let users create more, and distribute their windows between them in whatever way makes sense to them? A menu bar with some permanent items, and the items for the currently focused app.Īs Macs got more powerful we became liberated to run more and more apps simultaneously, and the number of windows on our screens grew and grew and grew.A dock with icons for your currently running apps, your favourite apps, and the recycle bin.All the windows for all your currently running apps.A background layer with icons representing attached storage drives and offering a place to store documents (theoretically temporarily).It was one single view of the world, and it contained four things: Before spaces, the Mac had one desktop which acted like a super-window within which all your windows lived. Spaces has been around for so long that it has a history, and I think it helps to understand that history. Taking my lead from Allison & Ron, I’m going to try to do the same for Apple’s much older window-management feature, Spaces (technically Mission Control now). What I loved about that piece is that they started from the assumption that Stage Manager isn’t for everyone, and then helped people both understand the feature, and whether or not it was likely they’d get value from it. A few weeks ago Allison and Ron described Apple’s new Stage Manager feature, and why it works so well for them on NosillaCast episode 919.
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