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Virtual Desktop

This technique has been in everyday use since more than two decades as "Virtual Desktops" by 95 % of Linux/Unix-Users. The whole article should be overwritten with "Virtual Desktops". With the pure and very late implementation and (!) the renaming ("branding"), Apple suggests in away an innovation or even an invention to less informed people.

It is like introducing "Cars" under the term "General Motors" only. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.130.51.195 (talk) 08:07, 4 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.130.12.107 (talk) [reply]

I agree, and right now it seems like the article's sole purpose is to point out that linux did it first. I don't know how to move an article, but I definitely think that it should be "Virtual Desktop" with spaces being listed as Mac's version of it. It'd be like having "Bravia" as the main article for Television set, and then making the whole page about how other companies make TVs too. 64.85.130.246 (talk) 08:06, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feature or application?

Do we know whether this is a separate application or just a feature of the existing Mac OS X window manager Quartz Compositor? My guess would be the latter. If so I'd suggest Spaces should just be mentioned on the Quartz Compositor page rather than having its own separate page. AlistairMcMillan 21:28, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if Spaces will be presented as an application. But I think it will be regarded as such by lay users of Mac OS X. The majority of new features unveiled during the recent keynote were applications (except for Core Animation), Spaces was, to my impression, treated more or less as a standalone application (it has it's own icon and name). The same goes for Exposé, which you proposed to merge as well, I just noticed. I think both Exposé and Spaces will generally be seen as standalone applications. A regular Mac user will refer more often to something like Exposé, than using a feature of the Quartz Compositor. However, that fact needs to mentioned in both articles if the decision will be not to merge. mensch • t 00:46, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm...I'm not sure. It's presented as feature, and it has its own "Spaces.app" in the applications folder. O_o --M1ss1ontom a rs2k4 ^{(T | C | @)} 17:33, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spaces even has it's own Icon. Zazaban 02:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Drag and drop

The drag and drop behavior of Spaces seems notable enough to warrant a mention in the article. --69.108.105.157 17:34, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe, but it's not at all new or special. It's been in use on Linux for many years.

What we really need is a description of how you use it. In the screen shot, I see a ghostly (yuck) pager floating over the desktop. That's not always there, right? How does one invoke it? Does one switch desktops in the normal manner, by clicking on one? There doesn't seem to be an icon at the bottom of the screen for this feature... why not? Could one place the pager down there and use it that way, just like on a normal Linux desktop? Can I switch desktops with only a single click? Are there keyboard shortcuts? 24.110.144.116 07:25, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

On Ubuntu (GNOME) the pager appears when using the keyboard shortcut to change workpaces, it will probably work the same way on the mac, I cant confirm this as I mostly use Beryl and more recently Compiz-Fusion which don't show the pager in cube rotate or expo. --211.28.213.219 08:22, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Move page to Spaces (Mac OS X)

The title of this page doesn't match that of Exposé (Mac OS X), which doesn't make much sense, as they're closely related. One or the other should probably be moved. 69.178.54.227 (talk) 11:52, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Catch 22

This article states that Spaces is based off Komposé, and Komposé's article states that it is inspired by Exposé. Given that Space/Exposé were released simultaneously and are intertwined, one or the other is probably incorrect. Anyone know which? Achromatic (talk) 18:21, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Exposé was introduced in Mac OS X 10.3, Spaces in 10.5. They were not simultaneous. dB (talk) 03:51, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]