Comments on: Make Lion’s Mission Control behave more like Spaces

By: Tom Lancaster

Tom Lancaster — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:59:25 +0000

n’thing “bring the grid back” I use muscle memory to switch from my IDE to different browsers. Having a 2nd dimension makes those transitions quicker.

By: holly

holly — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:19:35 +0000

Bring the grid back! I hate mission control. Like so many others I used the rows for multiple projects. I CANT SEE what is in each desktop now, OR more things around in easily. What a blow my ability to function at the computer.

By: macairuser

macairuser — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:59:48 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly about bringing back the grid layout. I have the hot corners mapped to spaces (now mission control) so with a simple cursor movement I’m in mission control and easily select which desktop. I use 12, each with a different app assigned. With the grid layout, you could easily switch spaces and even drag and drop windows from one desktop to another.
Everyone, please submit request for the grid layout to apple.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:52:15 +0000

I agree with HJ that grids ought to be returned. I used them to organize my spaces in ways that the linear organization of Mission Control doesn’t offer.

Also, the thumbnail image of the spaces tiled at the top are too small. You can’t easily discern what is in them. The tiles magnify, but too little. They should magnify so you can see the individual windows in them and even be able to select individual windows.

Finally, reordering spaces by dragging tiles ought to be possible. That’s the Mac way after all.

By: P T Withington

P T Withington — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:12:44 +0000

I wish there were a way when switching windows of an application that has windows in multiple spaces to have it automatically switch to the space containing the window.

By: Gary Dowdy

Gary Dowdy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:43:19 +0000

How do you get access to the menu items when inside a space? For example, I put Excel is a sep space but need access to the menu which is only on space 1. Thoughts?

By: HJ SD

HJ SD — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:24:10 +0000

Lion introduced one huge timesaver — Reopen Windows when Logging Back In.
But is there a way to return to the grid layout of Spaces (3×3, 4×4, etc)?
If not, Apple should it bring it back — make it an option. When I’m working on several projects simultaneously (who isn’t these days?), I would use each row of Spaces for one project (separate Spaces for the project’s Word files, PDFs, Safari browsers, spreadsheets, etc).
Hopefully Apple is working on this.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:42:26 +0000

Thanks for posting this article, its quite helpful. For those who also have a Mac Pro with dual displays (and are contemplating a MacBook), is four spaces (per display) pretty much the magic number you have found to be optimal? If so, would you change this on a MacBook Pro based on its screen size (17″, 15″, 13″)? What about the little powerhouse 11″ MacBook Air and spaces? Also, is there any way in Lion to sync spaces (between Mac Pro and MacBook) so its easy to take the MacBook on the road and resume from where you left off on the Mac Pro tower and visa versa?