What was their thinking behind this?...

[jameslmoser]

Sigh... uninformed people acting like they are posting factual information...

System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures > App Exposé

The fact that this is only accessible through a gesture is ridiculous. How are you suppose to do it with a regular mouse and keyboard? The "Magic Trackpad" is ridiculous. It doesn't even work like the Macbook's trackpad, you can't tap to click so switching between the two is confusing at best. Its is also no replacement for Snow Leopard's App Expose.

Studies have been done and gestures are a step backwards in user interfaces, especially when they are they only way of doing things or they are complicated and awkward, which most of the new ones in Lion are. At least the ones before lion felt intuitive and natural.

 

[xpipe]

You can set a hot corner for App Exposé. As a heavy spaces user, I thought the "new" spaces would be a big problem, but it hasn't been at all for me.

 

[oiuh151]

The fact that this is only accessible through a gesture is ridiculous. How are you suppose to do it with a regular mouse and keyboard? The "Magic Trackpad" is ridiculous. It doesn't even work like the Macbook's trackpad, you can't tap to click so switching between the two is confusing at best. Its is also no replacement for Snow Leopard's App Expose.

Studies have been done and gestures are a step backwards in user interfaces, especially when they are they only way of doing things or they are complicated and awkward, which most of the new ones in Lion are. At least the ones before lion felt intuitive and natural.

Read the thread FFS.

you can assign App Exposé to any key or any button that you want. (System Preferences > Mission Control > Application windows)

 

[ljonesj]

Well the problem with me with gestures is I have carpal tunnel and some of the gestures hurt my rest as i have do it funny as i have long fingers

 

[wikus]

Sigh... uninformed people acting like they are posting factual information...

System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures > App Exposé

Once I get home, I'm going to give you a taste of reality by reporting your condescending and arrogant attitude to a mod.

A number of people have already explained to you that Mission Control lacks expose for all windows, ungrouped, with either a click, hot spot (my case) or assigned keyboard button, yet you still maintain the self righteous attitude that a valid point and a factually removed function from Mac OS does not exist.

 

[Goldfinger]

If you knew that then why the hell did you say "Firstly, not everybody has a machine with a trackpad."? Clearly if you knew that you can assign it to anything you want then you wouldn't have said this. There was App Exposé in Snow Leopard too for a reason.

Dealing with a random grid of windows with no visual cue as to what belongs to what app is not a superior way of doing things no matter how you try trick yourself into believing that it is.

I, and many others, could see perfectly well what was going on in the windows. Plenty of visual clues. You really don't need an App icon to identify the windows. In fact, now that I think about it, when I open Mission Control I don't even see/notice the app icons, I just look at the window content.

The new way is not superior, to me, if it slows me down.

I'm pissed off because Apple removed a perfect feature that was used by a ton of people and that could perfectly coexist with the new two-step method.

When something is changed people don't like it simply because they changed it so therefore they have to learn a new way of using it so therefore they are slower with it. Yet in the end said change is beneficial because it eventually increases your productivity as you get used to it. Welcome to technology.

One step is still quicker than two steps. All window Exposé will always be quicker then doing mission control, select app and do an App Exposé. I really don't see how it could be any quicker.

 

[frnak]

10.7.2

I am not running any 3rd party software to modify the desktop, and as you can see from previous post, some users were able to recreate the problem.

I am extremely disappointed to see this(Window Grouping) not addressed in the latest 10.7.2 update. Personally, from my point of view, this issue has become a critical problem that's probably hindering a lot of people from upgrading to lion (that actually cares about Mac OS X).

Going through multiple workflows with 5-10 finder windows, Xcode, and a bunch of Safari windows is just UNBELIEVABLY slow and frustrating compared to SL. Mission Control is the ONE and only major problem with Lion. And it needs to be "IMPLEMENTED DIFFERENTLY" immediately before any other issues in 10.7.3.

I'm not trolling anyone about this topic, it's because I genuinely care enough for Mac OS X that these things should be mentioned.

 

[wikus]

Has Apple acknowledged this problem yet? Or are they ever going to fix Mission Control to allow 'all app' expose?