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I have 4 spaces... (geez, who needs 16! That would be like having a space for every application that you use...)

1: Workspace

2: iTunes / Quicktime

3: 2nd Workspace (for if I'm working on 2 projects at the same time)

4: "Progress" (Blizzard Download Manager... Installers... Handbreak... anything that has a progress bar and requires very little input from me goes in this space.)

All: Stickies (They're minimized... and in the top right corner normally... in the background and transparent so it's not like they take up a lot of space on my 24" screen.)
 
I dont use it. Ive tried using it for iTunes, since its so crappy and being small like winamp, but I always forget its in another space and just use the itunes widget instead.

I could think of reasons to use spaces but all those reasons have nothing to do with what I actually need to do. Expose works good enough for me.
 
Is there a way to say certain applications won't show up in certain spaces?

For example... if I open Keynote when I'm in space 2, and I have it set up so Keynote won't open in space 2 or 4, instead it will shift me over to space 1 or 3 and open keynote?
 
go to System Preferences -> Expose & Spaces and there you can set eg. Keynote to open in space 2 so when you launch keynote it will switch you to the space you've assigned it to.
i don't think you can set an app to more than one and less than all spaces.
don't know if that answers your question
personally, after some trial and error, i've done this:
space 1:safari/camino/adium (surfing stuff)
space 2:fireworks/dreamweaver/photoshop/flash (work stuff)
space 3:mail, address book, ical, iphoto (mailing+iphoto stuff)
space 4:iwork, transmission,mactheripper,cyberduck(iwork+stuff that takes time to finish)
:)
it sort of works ok so far, although i'm still not quite convinced it's better than expose on it's own...
 
1. Safari, Adium
2. iTunes, last.fm
3. mail
4. photoshop or anything else.

I find spaces a lot neater than using expose although I still use the two in conjunction with each other.

on a side note, I hate really big apps like iPhoto and iTunes. those guys that just demand so much space.
 
how do you use Spaces?
how have you divided your apps?
maybe with a few examples from you guys i can find a way to use it...

I currently have mine set to 6 spaces and have my most commonly used apps open at login (safari, mail, iTunes, etc.) assigned to a space if they tend to occupy a large window. For iChat and Adium, I have them set to follow me in spaces. I click the dock icon to change between windows much more often than I open the spaces view. I use expose to sort between my multiple safari and finder windows. Basically, I use spaces to eliminate excessive overlap of different app windows.
 
As a sysadmin, I use Terminal quite a bit for managing our company's linux servers. I use "screen" inside of each terminal instead of opening up a new terminal for each server. I use Spaces for grouping my terminal/screen sessions on each desktop (ie all web servers on 1st desktop, mail servers open on 2nd desktop, firefox on 3rd desktop and my macbook pro's local terminal (for mail and such) on the last desktop. Keeps my fairly organized until I run out of desktops at which point i just add more. Linux has had this for years, and I am glad that Apple has finally added this as a built in feature...I used to use a 3rd party app that did this, but ran into stability issues and used to curse it at least once a day :)
 
I use it and I don't know if there's a bug in the program or because I used an imported excel file (but it is now saved as numbers)

But when I'm in numbers (space 4) and enter a capital letter in a cell it switches to space 2, very frustrating!!

If I enter into the edit bar at at the top it does not switch to another space.

Other than this I love it.

space 1 - safari and mail
space 2 - cyberduck, iweb and multisite
space 3 - empty
space 4 - iphoto numbers
space 5 - firefox
space 6 - itunes
 
maybe your shortcut to change between spaces is shift-number, that's why it changes when you type a capital letter ;)
 
I use it but it's pretty buggy for me with the CS3 suite... when you switch spaces, the menu and tool bars in the Adobe programs often don't render fully until you click on each one. Any ways, I keep iTunes and iPhoto in one, mail in another, Safari in another, and then my CS stuff in the last. Keeps it clean.
 
yeah, same here, CS3 is pretty buggy...
bit of a disappointment really, cause i'm starting to like Spaces (kind of)
and since CS3 is my source of income, i'm probably gonna disable spaces...
don't really know yet, i'm torn...
 
i'm actually finding spaces to work better than cmd-tab to switch programs. for instance, i always know itunes is space 3. since i'm usually in space one, i only have to press cmd-down arrow to get there, where i might have to cmd-tab-tab-tab to do the same.
 
I use Spaces all the time. I mainly use it when my desktop is already cluttered and I want to open another window. I also use it when I'm installing, downloading, or waiting for something. I'll throw that into a space, and continue what I was doing in another.
 
i'm actually finding spaces to work better than cmd-tab to switch programs. for instance, i always know itunes is space 3. since i'm usually in space one, i only have to press cmd-down arrow to get there, where i might have to cmd-tab-tab-tab to do the same.

Thats one of the nice things with using 4 spaces as you are never more than one keyboard press (Cmd + Up/Down/Left/Right) from any other space
 
i didn't mean to activate spaces, i meant to go from one space to another.
look it up in sys prefs, maybe that's it. ;)
 
How in the world do you manage to keep iTunes in full screen cover flow when its in a different space? I have been trying to do this since Leopard first came out and have been failing miserably. I thought it was impossible but it sounds like some people have figured it out....help? :confused:
 
dunno bout that, but i've disabled Spaces.
it was good while it lasted, but it's too buggy with the CS3 Suite for me
to use it in a real life scenario so to speak.
when they fix that, i will enable it again.
 
For a while, I didn't know what to do with space. I knew it had to be useful but I couldn't figure out what to do with it. Now, I always have 4 spaces configured as a default and recently on a very busy night I bumped it up to 6 but I think any more than that and I'd go nuts. I've never specifically assigned any app to it's own space. Anyway, here's what I have going at any one time...

Space 1: Safari, Mail
Space 2: Excel, Finder
Space 3: Toast 8 (x2) - I frequently have 2 instance open and use both to burn stuff out to my 2 super drives.
Space 4: Handbrake
 
I use it to organize my desktop. For example, I have on screen dedicated to running VMware fusion hosting Windows. Other screens are running various MAC application. Without spaces, screen cluttering would be more difficult to manage.
 
Spaces together with time machine are my favorite new features for leopard.

With spaces, I usually have...

>One for work - Pages, iCal, small Safari window
>One for play - iTunes, MSN, Safari
>Than maybe another for random applications

I find it very useful!
 
I use it all the time. My organization:

1- school work: Pages, etc
2- webkit
3- Mail
4- iTunes

Haven't found the need for more than 4 spaces yet ...
 
Didn't use spaces much until this thread and now I just think it's awesome.

1 - Mail, iCal
2 - Netnewswire
3 - Safari
4 - iTunes, Realplayer, Radioshift

Still tweaking, but so extremely useful to have apps separated.
 
I think before i can really optimally enjoy spaces i need more features:

Adding a space actually should behave like another adding another user, but without the permission issues.
- I would like to be able to give each space a different desktop and background image so i'll know in a glimpse what space i'm actually in.
- I would like each space to be able to have its own dock contents.

Agreed!

Also a bit on number #2 I'd like to have different dock positions too (For some apps I like them wide, others might need a bit more and I don't really like hiding my dock)

I don't use it much, I guess I just kind of forget a bout it, although I'd imagine I'd be using it a lot more on a Macbook or a 12 inch notebook, I used different multiple desktop programs on my iBook and found it very useful.

I've been messing around with sheepshaver for no real reason but to look at how different OS 9 is (I never used it) and to try out old games, i'd love to be able to bind it to a space but for some reason when i add it, it doesn't add.

I'd also probably use it far more if I had Windows so I could run it fullscreen and switch right back. But I don't right now so, meh.
 
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