Stop using the Desktop!

[strobe]

mtc7501, preach on brother! I just wish more apps would use the global download directory preferences.

lucifer, Space.app doesn't give you any more real estate IMO. I don't understand why people use virtual screens. One of the keys to using multiple applications together efficiently is being able to see them, which is why every mac I've used since 1986 has had multiple monitors.

Since one can select individual windows using the Dock's contextual menu I think Space.app is useless unless a future version allows one to bring groups of windows to the foreground without hiding the others, or keep specific windows in the foreground. However as it is, it's just trying to copy a utility which has no utility.

I've found virtual screens are even more detrimental to productivity in X11, if it can be believed X11 can be worse than usual. Virtual screens look like X11's answer to windows global window mode, or whatever they called it.

Some time ago I had a NuBus card made by RasterOps which allowed one to have a virtual screen which scrolled. In some cases I actually found that useful since I could scroll large images more easily than by using the scroll bar. Although I would much prefer to have a trackball button which when clicked would scroll the image up/down/left/right when the cursor is moved.

[endian]

I find that when I start putting things on the desktop I end up with files multiplying. All of a sudden there is a HUGE clutter of miscellaneous files

I purposefully leave my downloads on the desktop, otherwise I end up with gigabytes of .tar.gz and .img.sit files lying around for months. Besides, OmniWeb has a 'Download to Desktop' item in its context menus, so this way I don't have to look in 2 places for things. Although I wonder if the menu changes the download location if I change my prefs... hmmm....

[Jasoco]

I'm never giving up MY desktop! You can take it when you pry it from my Cold, Dead Mac!

[jove]

Man,

This thread will never die :-)

Strobe - not everybody can have multiple monitors! Some of us just have one small one.

I stopped using my desktop so I can use Saverlab with full screen background slideshows! The only piece of functionality I have missed is more of a finder limitation. I want to move a file from point A to point M. I would normally select the file drag it to the desktop, navigate to the new folder and drop the file in. I now must have multiple finder windows open. I have gotten used to the single Finder window mode, mentality, and philosophy. I really don't want to open another screen real estate sucking window - just to drop a file! You know, popup folders, with flaws and all, was a solution to that problem.

Just my inflation adjusted 2 cents

Jove