(Former) Spaces users, how are you coping with Mission Control?

[Icy1007]

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I ended up going back to SL on my productivity computer.

Mission Control cannot handle lots of windows/applications nor dual monitors. In SL I could see everything happening on my computer with one flick of my wrist, in Lion you can only really see what is happening on one space at a time. And App Expose from within Mission Control leaves the the windows still covered up, so now you cannot find and drag windows between spaces

^ this.

Mission Control is like trying to view your windows through a pinhole. I'm sure it works for "normal" users who only have a few windows open- iTunes, Safari, Mail, etc. But the moment you have more then 2 or 3 windows open for the same application, the whole thing falls apart.

I too went back to SL. Mission Control was ultimately the thing that pushed me over the edge. When something as straightforward as Expose and Spaces gets dumbed down to what we see in MC, it starts to impact productivity. And time is money, as they say.

-SC

If you have multiple windows open for the same app, that's what app exposé is for. It works just like it did in SL. Personally I really like mission control, but sometimes it messes up and I have to restart my computer. That doesn't really bother me because all the apps and windows I had open reopen upon restart.

 

[mobtek]

It's pretty crap, the only cool useful addition for me was the adding of Focus follows mouse in Mission Control, I used to use this all the time in KDE and saves you clicks

 

[xraydoc]

Mission Control is a piece of crap.

I used Spaces a LOT, I had 6 spaces with mostly one major application per space.

With Mission Control, I realized that the best way to do things is to assign every app to a space, and NEVER add or remove spaces once you have that done. I have 6 desktops (or spaces, whatever) set up like in the screenshot:

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This way, you never have to worry about rearranging spaces (because you can't anyway...), since you have your apps where you want them, regardless of which space you opened them in to begin with.

However, full screen apps can screw up your order. If on the above screenshot I were to put Mail into full screen, I would end up with an empty space where Mail used to be, and then a full screen space to the right of it. It's a mess.

There is a setting in the Mission Control preferences to turn on or off Automatic Rearranging. Would this help in your scenario? I haven't tried to see if it still would give you an empty space.