SideNote: Multi-Desktop... Done Right

For those of you who haven't done so yet, go to your local Apple store, and check out OS X Leopard. With all the other features set aside, Spaces alone is worth the upgrade.

I am not new to the multi-desktop interface which is standard in most linux window managers, but I have never seen it implemented as well as it is in Leopard's Spaces. With Spaces you can hotkey between desktops rather easily or you can bring it up with a "hot corner". Whe you bring up spaces it shows your multi desktops all on the screen at the same time (similar to how Expose shows your programs). The cool part is, you can drag your programs between the multiple desktops and Spaces remembers which spaces you want those programs on.

For everyday use, this isn't a big deal, but for power users it rocks!

n my setup for instance, when I use my Macbook, I usually have at least one VM running, and Citrix desktop from work at the same time. Now, when I open one VM and Citrix, they remember which desktop they were last parked on at stay out of my way until I hotkey to them.

The whole setup is great. I will try to get a video of this to post because once I researched how it works, I was sold.

Kudos to the Os X Development team, and Kudos to Apple.