Here’s the thing. I don’t use the mouse that much, and I never subscribed to the whole ‘gestures’ thing. I’ve always used keyboard shortcuts, as I find them to be far more efficient than waving a mouse around. Mission Control requires you to use your mouse to do anything useful, either by using gestures or hot-corners.
This wouldn’t be such a problem in it’s own right, however Mission Control is nowhere near as powerful or feature packed as the combination of Expose’ and Spaces in Snow Leopard.
Here’s a list of functionality I used daily that no longer works (or at least I can’t find) in Lion:
- Align virtual desktops in a grid – now you’re forced to work entirely horizontally
- Drag applications directly between spaces – you have to actually go to the space, then go into Mission Control mode, then you can drag to other spaces
- Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly jump directly to a specific space
- Load applications in specified space
- Show open Application windows by click-holding on an Application icon (you have to click ‘Show All Windows’)
Not cool.
Agree, but here are some workarounds so still not perfect.
1. it just sucks, all at the top. too bad.
2. You can drag it to the edge of the window, it’ll go you just have to wait.. and drag across multiple. And it shows up on the opposite side of the screen. So still mostly sucks.
3. ctrl-# works.
4. right/alt click the app icon, options, assign to is what you’re looking for.
5. Try this, http://hyperdock.bahoom.com/ even better than the old way. no clicking and some dock control also. If you still hate Lion, don’t blame you, it works in SL.
Also:
2. ctrl-# while mousing-down on a window carries the window with you.
In SL Spaces, with Exposé’s “Show All Windows”, you could see every window of every Space without being in an specific Space. Also being able to drag windows from Space to Space without being in any actual Space. Those things I miss the most. And “Show All Windows” in general, is very missed.
Haven’t done any heavy work since I’ve installed it but I feel like I will probably wanna go back to Snow Leopard when I start working seriously.
mission control is useless. with expose I had an overview of my 3×3 or sometimes 4×4 grid of desktops and could easily see what was going on in each, which made working with 3 or 4 apps and even more docs at a time a breeze.
now I just have this teeny little row of fail, can’t distinguish desktops from each other, stuff moves around all the time, and sometimes when I’m REALLY lucky finder windows open in a desktop I don’t have access to.
Apple, give me back my eagles! -ehrrm, expose.
-expose/spaces combo that was…
yes, its garbage…glad steve is dead maybe they will do something right now.