Pfft. All blackbox users know mousewheel-on-desktop is the One True Context Switcher!
Jokes aside, I can't help but feel that Spaces is somehow incompatible with the OS X application model. Because the desktop is application-centric as opposed to window-centric, it is very difficult to use an application for multiple tasks at once, which conflicts with the workspace-as-task model.
Web browsers and terminals, for example, get spun up on every workspace for various short-lived tasks and destroyed shortly thereafter. But spaces (at least as far as my 3 hours of hacking got me) insists on switching to the last workspace containing a window of the starting application, instead of placing the new window where I am now.
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Pfft. All blackbox users know mousewheel-on-desktop is the One True Context Switcher!
Jokes aside, I can't help but feel that Spaces is somehow incompatible with the OS X application model. Because the desktop is application-centric as opposed to window-centric, it is very difficult to use an application for multiple tasks at once, which conflicts with the workspace-as-task model.
Web browsers and terminals, for example, get spun up on every workspace for various short-lived tasks and destroyed shortly thereafter. But spaces (at least as far as my 3 hours of hacking got me) insists on switching to the last workspace containing a window of the starting application, instead of placing the new window where I am now.
There is an option in the Expose Preferences that determines whether or not to switch spaces when activating an application.
dope! Was that introduced in Snow Leopard? My apologies.