This is an easy trap to fall into, thinking you've solved a problem when you've actually just specialized for one use case. 45° is all it takes only if you use Luka's four-space configuration (in much the same way that the current functionality is ideal for a two-space configuration). This "redesign" doesn't even define how other configs would work, much less improve on the status quo. Solutions are always easy when you leave scaling as an exercise for the reader.
And all the solutions I see in the comments either bring back the major complaint about the existing functionality (unnatural navigational rules) or just scrap Luka's design and suggest something else.
What you say is a fair point, but the scheme he proposes would make the 2x2 situation so enormously much better that it is criminal that Apple don't implement it immediately.
That, fixing the Expose/Spaces interaction, and fixing the key binding problem (when editing documents I got used to using the shortcut to move around between words, and spaces overloads some of the same shortcuts).
Now that he's pointed out the problem with the vertical versus horizontal movement, I wonder whether a 1x4 set of spaces would work better for me than the 2x2 arrangement, given Apple's appalling default behaviours.
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This is an easy trap to fall into, thinking you've solved a problem when you've actually just specialized for one use case. 45° is all it takes only if you use Luka's four-space configuration (in much the same way that the current functionality is ideal for a two-space configuration). This "redesign" doesn't even define how other configs would work, much less improve on the status quo. Solutions are always easy when you leave scaling as an exercise for the reader.
And all the solutions I see in the comments either bring back the major complaint about the existing functionality (unnatural navigational rules) or just scrap Luka's design and suggest something else.
What you say is a fair point, but the scheme he proposes would make the 2x2 situation so enormously much better that it is criminal that Apple don't implement it immediately.
That, fixing the Expose/Spaces interaction, and fixing the key binding problem (when editing documents I got used to using the shortcut to move around between words, and spaces overloads some of the same shortcuts).
Now that he's pointed out the problem with the vertical versus horizontal movement, I wonder whether a 1x4 set of spaces would work better for me than the 2x2 arrangement, given Apple's appalling default behaviours.
I use a 1x3 arrangement, and it's pretty easy to keep track of where I am / which way to go when I need to switch.