Comments on: Make Spaces Hyper

By: JG

JG — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:42:33 +0000

Forget Hyperspaces/VirtueDesktops. DesktopManager is free and still works on Snow Leopard: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3463

Configurable transitions/speeds, menubar pager, and FREE

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By: Eggbert

Eggbert — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:27:45 +0000

Virtuedesktops was a favorite on Tiger for me, and it was popular at my school (we loved our visualboy advance games) but with leopard, we lost the transitions. Hyperspaces is pretty nice, but I am a cheap, cheap student. Sorry, Tony I don’t have a credit card to buy.

By: Jono

Jono — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:43:24 +0000

Yea, I’m really liking Hyperspaces. It’s really handy to be able to give different spaces names, & it’s cool to be able to have different backgrounds in different spaces. There’s a delay changing backgrounds when switching spaces but I’m optomistic that this will be fixed in the future :)

By: Tony Arnold

Tony Arnold — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:03:14 +0000

Thanks for the great review guys :)

@Alex and @Nick – I’ll need to verify the behaviour of the transition/animation time flag – I’m pretty sure the public preview doesn’t currently use it (!). It certainly doesn’t entirely disable Spaces transition – that will come when I look at restoring the old Tiger-style transitions post-Hyperspaces 1.0.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:14:16 +0000

@Alex – yes and no. It’s not directly in the Hyperspaces Preferences. But there is an internal flag for the transition time (in seconds) that you can alter. The best way to do so is to use the Secrets preference pane from Blacktree (maker of Quicksilver). There’s a post about Secrets here on TheAppleBlog if you’re not familiar with it.

By: Hobbes Doo

Hobbes Doo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:18:44 +0000

I’m a big fan of Tony’s work and always used Virtue Desktops until Leopard came out.

I’d like to see the following implemented in Hyperspace:

- configurable transitions (if possible) just like we had them in Virtue, e.g. Cube, Slide, Dissolve, etc.

- I would like to see a better transition between spaces when you have different wallpapers assigned to them – right now it first switches to the space and then you see the wallpaper change – I would love to see the wallpaper change more smoothly or even see the old one slide off and the new one slide in seamlessly (again, if possible – I’m not sure of the Spaces architecture or what APIs Hyperspace is using to make this happen.

- it would be really cool to see a screenshot of each desktop in the switcher app, not only the wallpapers, though it looks really awesome

That’s pretty much it. Just installed the preview version and it’s rock solid. Great work!

By: Matthew Bookspan

Matthew Bookspan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:35:41 +0000

Another option that I just found adds value to the Dock with respect to Spaces: Dockspaces 2.0. Here is the URL: http://web.mac.com/patrickjamelo/dock.html. Notably, it is free.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:23:34 +0000

Most importantly — can you disable the transition animation?