New Mac OS X 10.7 Lion - Mission Control Demonstration

A demonstration of the Mission Control feature included in Apple's newest release of Mac OS X - 10.7 Lion. Mission Control is an updated and improved version of Expose.

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[leccine]

fullscreen as a feature in 2011?!?! really? what is next?

[roger767]

@leccine  a start button

[walter0bz]

feature request [1] when a desktop has many windows of only one application, please make it do old style expose.

[2] in the app bundles, please make the title bars visible for all windows like cascade.. it nearly does this already

[3] make it automatically do the app-bundle spread as you pan the cursor around

[TheFri13]

@walter0bz Logitech K400 is something what I would like to have. But with same touch pad as what is Apple selling as own unit = big 6 inch touchpad with glass surface. K400 has just 3.5 inch touch pad what I call small. But it would be better than nothing for laptops if just located to right side of the keyboard. I just wait that someone separates keyboard and touch pad on laptop and allows user to swap their places so it fits for left handed as well. Of course a 15"+ screens only

[walter0bz]

@TheFri13 - Keyboard with big trackpad inplace of numeric - yeah I want this too (for desktop machine). Fed up faffing around with mouse+keyboard when i have several machines , and most of the ones i've seen are too small.

[walter0bz]

@TheFri13

>>" And please dont mistake window management (or UI at all) to OS"

-- i know, i've personally tinkered around with customizing window manager sourcecode (had a bash at trying to make dwm more presentable & do what I wanted). I know the difference between the layers even if I slip up saying 'linux' when I mean one layer of software that gets thrown around with linux distros. I must look into KDE again. But the multitouch trackpad has me addicted to the Macbook at the minute :)

[TheFri13]

@walter0bz I didn't mean switcher but KWin itself. Like when Apple presented Exposé it was awesome.

And as Unix desktops have had VD's long, KWin got presentation (clone of Expose) and improved it by joining it with desktop grid. Example: imgur . com/ tBOBj That is what is littlebit same as mission control on OS X. And please dont mistake window management (or UI at all) to OS as the UI has nothing to do with the OS. OS just simply controls all other software, UI's and apps and so on. :)

[TheFri13]

@walter0bz I have never liked three finger gestures comfortable on laptops touch pads when needed to move fingers up.

They work great when you have separated touch pad like Apple does (seems to be only one as well with dedicated one). As then hand is much better location for it.

I waited many years and wrote to PC OEM's to make a 17" laptop where the touchpad replaces numeric pad. And now Logitech released one such keyboard, should have suggest that to Apple as well.

[walter0bz]

@TheFri13

>>" Best VD management is still done by KWin."

-- you might be right there, the small thumnails horizontally on the taskbar are great, etc etc.

i'm in 2 minds, there's a school of thought that apps themselves should manage screenspace (e.g. an IDE for development becomes like its own windowmanager with internal tiling etc etc) , but I do like the idea of a lot of powerful cross-app functionality built into the OS (complex OS enables simple apps to work together)

[walter0bz]

@TheFri13 -

Just discovered MissionControl can still use hot-corners to activate, my opinion of it has just gone up :) ,its' a personal preference of mine, i found the up-swipe gesture un-comfortable ( strangely, i like throwing the cursor to the top with one finger, but for some reason constraining all your fingers together just doesn't fit my hands. I think i still like the sideways swipe for desktop switching, thats' very cool. If they add 'SNAP' & current desk expose on MC it's perfect

[TheFri13]

@walter0bz Actually, they were on X before Mac and X were for Linux almost from beginning.

The point is, that people run around Ubuntu as it would have invented everything, while it has not. One of the worst distribution what is available by ethics and amount of damage what it does for its users knowledge by its community.

The mission control is better than a VD's on G-S. I use both. G-S is fine until you actually need to start using virtual desktops. Best VD management is still done by KWin.

[walter0bz]

@TheFri13 -

multi desktops was in linux before mac