Mac OS X and Virtual Desktop Functionality?

Seems like a fun little thing to keep me entertained for a few minutes. A big blue button for Expose.

This is wonderful. Until expose, I couldn't work without a virtual desktop manager. I've been experimenting with running without one. I'm mostly successful, but the screens are just way too cluttered.

The combination of expose AND virtual desktops would be incredible. Right now the codetek virtual desktop doesn't work very well with expose. I'd love to see an update, or better yet an offical apple virtual desktop solution that works well with expose...

Side note: Being able to cube spin to a virtual desktop would be very cool.

Very cool

I hope thy surprise us with unexpected additions to the tradition virtual desktop idea.

They already have the cube for fast user switching...

One of the frequent complaints my Mac users (esp powerBook users) is that the screen resolution is too low at 100dpi. Others complain that anything higher is too hard to read. With Expose, Apple has already demonstrated functional scaling of a window. Why not take this one step further and imagine a display where you can zoom in, or out, of a large, virtual display - smoothly? Multiple desktop size, single desktop convenience, plus the freedom to go wild on high-dpi monitors since users can always zoom-in or zoom-out to get the widget size that they want. Now that would be cool.

-Richard

Originally posted by orb
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Side note: Being able to cube spin to a virtual desktop would be very cool.

The could make the desktops themselves part of expose,

usage:

1. hide all widnows for current desktop
2. select item
3. show all desktops expose style and click the desired one
4. find the desired window using the current expose setup

That would be really cool

Not just does this sound great, but it sounds possible.

I've got over ten Safari windows (with who knows how many pages in tabs) open on my iMac right now. It'd be great if I could have just one desktop to handle all those windows.

I thought the purpose of Exposé was to remove the need for multiple desktops, and that virtual desktops were a perfect substitute for the lack of extra monitors (or computers, for that matter). To me, it seems like Apple is pulling both ends of the same rope here.

I love virtual desktops like in KDE and I love Exposé, but I still can't see the benefit of using both on the same computer AT THE SAME TIME. Nevertheless, the more options the better I guess...

seems to me that's what expose should be able to do right now. expose is pretty cool, but i tend use the dock and hide comands to scroll through apps. using the extra buttons on my mouse for expose, it is very convenient however for quickly getting around multiple documents open in one app.

SWEET ACTION I love virtual desktops.

built-in virtual desktop would be very welcome. i'm sure it will be implemented so that you can use expose alone, virtual desktop alone or both or none.

it would be nice to see apple do it because while codetek version is very well done, it's also a bit buggy, i think. they've issued tons and tons of updates (re: patches) for their app since summer.