Leopard Day 3 - Spaces
October 28th, 2007
What are Spaces?
Spaces is like something that Unix/Linux has had forever called virtual desktops. You can open different programs on different virtual desktops or Spaces to help you organize your work. I know, that is a recursive definition, let me try again: imagine you have four screens on your laptop - now imagine it is just one but you can flip through the four screens - that is it (It can be more than four or less than four - I just use four).
And you use them for what?
Well, personally, I have Xcode and Interface Builder open on separate Spaces and I flip between them. You might have a Word doc and a spreadsheet open on separate Spaces. It is pretty useful.
Interesting... what do you think?
Yeah, most of the Unix community won't really think of this as an upgrade. It is more playing catch-up. When I switched to OSX from Linux I gave up this feature and it is nice to have it back.