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Anyone using Full Screen Apps?
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It looked good at the WWDC but in reality i have not used it much... Its nice for things like demonstrations, i did use it whens howling my boss the latest release of his website as it bought the focus directly to the web. Other that stuff like that it just seems a bit slow and sluggish.
I think the animation times need to be trimmed by at least 50%. Also i would say its a bit early to condemn it as third party developers still need a chance to hit the floor and move with it.
I think the animation times need to be trimmed by at least 50%. Also i would say its a bit early to condemn it as third party developers still need a chance to hit the floor and move with it.
The animation is especially annoying when you're opening another full-screen window from a full-screen window that is already open. In Safari at least, there's like a second where nothing happens at all before the animation even starts to render.
Mail and iCal are full screen.
3 finger swipe moves the desktop to the full screen app.. they never get in the way like you stated.
3 finger swipe moves the desktop to the full screen app.. they never get in the way like you stated.
I use full screen apps for everything on my 13" MacBook, but I do wish the menu bar was still there. I hate moving the mouse to the top of the screen to see what time it is.
On my 24" iMac, the only full screen application I was using is Aperture, and I HATE the way Lion handles it, so now I just run it in windowed mode, but going full screen to view a photo is still super annoying.
On my 24" iMac, the only full screen application I was using is Aperture, and I HATE the way Lion handles it, so now I just run it in windowed mode, but going full screen to view a photo is still super annoying.
Tried it on 27" imac but I don't think is useful on any desktops. Also end up lose track of different programs I had open.
I love full screen but I hate how slowly the window animates into and out of full screen. I also hate that full screen apps get their own space, thereby increasing and decreasing the number of spaces you have, which means you can never get used to where things are. You can also not tell what space full screen apps should go into, limiting your sense of orientation even more.
I like to have my most often used apps in the middle spaces, and my least used apps on the spaces on the sides. If I want to open Safari in full screen, it might open on the side and I can't put it in the middle.
For the above reasons, I stopped using full screen altogether.
I like to have my most often used apps in the middle spaces, and my least used apps on the spaces on the sides. If I want to open Safari in full screen, it might open on the side and I can't put it in the middle.
For the above reasons, I stopped using full screen altogether.
I only use Preview for full screen since it's nice to read books in pdf form with no distractions.
I tried full screen with other apps but didn't really find it all that useful and sometimes I found it very annoying.
Like for example in Mail, I was tying in a new compose window but found out that I couldn't select a previous email from my inbox and I couldn't even move the compose window around. Annoying.
I tried iTunes fullscreen too but didn't like it since I like to have the last.fm app on the same space as iTunes.
I tried full screen with other apps but didn't really find it all that useful and sometimes I found it very annoying.
Like for example in Mail, I was tying in a new compose window but found out that I couldn't select a previous email from my inbox and I couldn't even move the compose window around. Annoying.
I tried iTunes fullscreen too but didn't like it since I like to have the last.fm app on the same space as iTunes.
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Yep. Here too
- Mail
- Safari
- Itunes
Seems there's a problem, once in full screen, and you switch to another desktop, when you switch back to the full screen app, your unable to exit full screen as the Finder menu bar is gone, even when you move to the top.
The only way then is ESC on keyboard.
Still... It's all good.
Yep. Here too
- Safari
- Itunes
Seems there's a problem, once in full screen, and you switch to another desktop, when you switch back to the full screen app, your unable to exit full screen as the Finder menu bar is gone, even when you move to the top.
The only way then is ESC on keyboard.
Still... It's all good.
The only app I've found truly useful in full screen is Screen Sharing. The removal of the host's menu bar and dock lets me focus on controlling the destination computer.
For other apps I miss the menu bar too much so don't use fullscreen. Anything I want in its own space I manually maximise and assign to a space in mission control. Plus that way I can have a sense of where things are. Eg I have a blank desktop1 for general apps, safari and twitter are in desktop 2, and mail is in desktop 3. So from safari I always know a swipe right will get me to mail. Whereas with fullscreen mode I don't know where I am in the list of apps (and the list isn't circular, so if you start swiping in the wrong direction it can take a lot of swipes to get where you want to be)
then if for any reason I do want the real full screen experience I can always temporarily pop into it, and still come back to a the space I had set up
For other apps I miss the menu bar too much so don't use fullscreen. Anything I want in its own space I manually maximise and assign to a space in mission control. Plus that way I can have a sense of where things are. Eg I have a blank desktop1 for general apps, safari and twitter are in desktop 2, and mail is in desktop 3. So from safari I always know a swipe right will get me to mail. Whereas with fullscreen mode I don't know where I am in the list of apps (and the list isn't circular, so if you start swiping in the wrong direction it can take a lot of swipes to get where you want to be)
then if for any reason I do want the real full screen experience I can always temporarily pop into it, and still come back to a the space I had set up
After experimenting over the weekend, the bulk of full screen apps really aren't for a 27in iMac....iTunes, Safari and Mail actually look ridiculous really, there's just ample white space left around the main content.
iPhoto works well, the content fills the app and it's on a black background which helps. Garageband works well also. But for the frequently used apps, Mail, Safari, iTunes, Calendar etc it's really suited to notebooks. I can definitely see the attraction there.
iPhoto works well, the content fills the app and it's on a black background which helps. Garageband works well also. But for the frequently used apps, Mail, Safari, iTunes, Calendar etc it's really suited to notebooks. I can definitely see the attraction there.
Same here, on my MacBook Pro 13. I haven't bought an external display yet and full screen mode for Safari, Mail, iTunes, iPhoto, and Calendar makes it really easy to cope with the small display.
I really wish that the Escape key didn't exit full screen mode, though. Way too easy to trigger accidentally.
I recently stopped using full screen apps on my MBP13. Great idea and love the extra real estate but full screen apps don't behave the way I want them to in Mission Control. Each gives me a separate desktop and just makes hunting for the damned things that much harder. Now at least all my apps show up in the Expose' portion of Mission Impossible.
I figure I didn't miss full screen apps in SL so I won't miss them now. And I don't.
I figure I didn't miss full screen apps in SL so I won't miss them now. And I don't.
I wish I could use it with Chrome (Canary Chrome build), but when you have two or more windows in full screen, you can't switch between them with 'command' + '~'. Deal breaker for me. Same thing happens with Safari.
Same here but on a 15" MBP lol. I find the implementation generally flawed. Mail is probably the biggest culprit; it has been many years since -anyone- has wanted 100% focus on their new mail message (outside of an iDevice, of course, which is what Lion is now, of course
); usually wanting to refer to other messages, other apps, sort out attachments, deal with new incoming messages, etc., while writing. So it just isn't an option.For iWork I reinstalled it just to see how fullscreen had been handled. Not Well, and most certainly Not Consistently ... sorry I mean most certainly Lionly!
In Snow Leopard, I used a space for iTunes and another for Safari. It's so nice to be able to have each in full screen in their own space (on my 21.5 inch iMac by the way), but other than those two apps (and DOS Emulator "Boxer" =P), I don't really use the feature. It's very nice though, and just makes sense to have. =3
