Spaces: revised

[JohnKentucky]

Ahh yes. Well, the Finder is the default running program.

[Gregg]

How's the hospital taking shape down there? I imagine things are a mess around there for now.

[JohnKentucky]

Hospital?

[Gregg]

Short memory, eh?
Baptist Hospital East

The firm I work for is involved in the expansion project.
You mentioned that you drive by it frequently the last time I asked you about it.

[Xairbusdriver]

Been busy the last few days. Seems like you guys have this problem figured out.

Apparently, I just don't need more than one Space! I use only about 6-7 apps at a time and generally not all at the same time. The most I might have open would be BBEdit, Fetch, Mariner Write, Firefox and Photoshop Elements. But in the background I will also want Excalibur, Speed Download, Typinator, Panda Calendar, Increase and URLM Pro in every Space. At other times I may also have GarageBand, Sound Studio, Epson Print CD and Fetch open (about twice a week for an hour) without Elements and Mariner Write. If I'm just surfing, I'll shutdown BBEdit, Fetch, Mariner Write and Elements. Spaces sounds like a great feature when you work with several distinct and non-overlapping sets of apps. Or a 'power-user' who wants to keep a lot of apps open but not clutter up the Desktop. Neither describes me, I guess. No problem

BTW, I don't know what else to call the windows that Finder creates. Almost every other app I use creates some kind of window, and I refer to those windows by the apps name plus 'window' to differentiate them from other windows. Occasionally, some of them also open 'palates' or secondary windows which are still referred to by the apps name plus the window type or the windows function. Finder is an app, it simply need to be running at all times when one is using the Mac's GUI. You can see that its windows will close when it is 'Relaunched' just like any other apps windows will close when Quit. "Folder window" is fine with me, but they are technically Directory windows, also. At least until you get to the end of the folder/directory path to a file/app/plist/etc. YMMV! Sorry if I confused you, but that's part of my secondary job in keeping you one your toes!

[krissel]

It might be helpful to think of spaces kind of like the separate desktops that appear when you log in and out of account, y'know, that cube that rotates? Whatever is opened while in/on that desktop belongs to that desktop. Of course it isn't exactly the same correlation.

UM, does Leopard still have that cube graphic for changing accounts?

Nother question, what happens if you drag an open Finder/Folder/Directory () window from one space to another?
What happens if you hold down the Option key while dragging?

[Gregg]

QUOTE(krissel @ Feb 17 2008, 06:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It might be helpful to think of spaces kind of like the separate desktops that appear when you log in and out of account, y'know, that cube that rotates? Whatever is opened while in/on that desktop belongs to that desktop. Of course it isn't exactly the same correlation.

UM, does Leopard still have that cube graphic for changing accounts?

Nother question, what happens if you drag an open Finder/Folder/Directory () window from one space to another?
What happens if you hold down the Option key while dragging?

No, I don't know. I don't have, need, or want separate accounts. Thus, we don't ever have to login. But, a cube is a useful analogy.

As for the other two questions; I didn't know it was possible to drag anything from one Space to another, but it is! So, if I forget to "get in" the right space before opening another Finder Pane (should we refuse to use that "W" word?) I can drag it over to the one I want it in. Holding down the Option key appears to have no effect.

[Xairbusdriver]

The concept of several windows on the sides of a cube is not my problem. I simply run my sets of apps at one time and the other sets at other times, I don't switch between sets while using any of them (other than using Finder). And since I have a very small set of used apps, anyway, I don't have a problem opening them one at a time, don't even use the Dock for that. But if you can use it, great! If it helps some one and yet it wasn't available, we'd have fewer options. I don't use all the functions of most apps! But I'm still glad they're there and I might need them one day! Always something new to learn!