by Ken Zindle
I've decided to walk to the edge of the precipice and say outright that I am a fan of "desktops" in Lion. I will also preface my remarks by saying that I have been relatively surprised that more people that I've talked to haven't used the former iteration, "spaces" in Snow Leopard, but such seems to be the case.
So, "Desktops": The ability to use multiple "spaces" in Snow Leopard was one of the reasons that I hated to see that OS pass by the boards. Imagine, then, my delight, when I realized that the feature "desktops" was the same as my favored 'spaces' in another form.My reasoning here is very simple. I like a clean work environment. I am definitely not a fan of having myriads of applications all piled on top of one another in the work space, with me having to rummage around, in one form for another, to get to where I want. (Sorry, folks, My quirk!)
For that simple reason, I took to "spaces" in Snow Leopard and used them happily. I do allow myself to have Safari, Mail, iPhoto, Pages and iTunes to be running all at the same time; plus I normally have a "work desk". To avoid the possible clutter, my method of choice was to use 'spaces', at least six of them, which allowed me to assign software to specific 'spaces'.
I was truly pleased then to become acquainted with 'desktops' in Lion, and when I came across an article that described how to assign a different photo to each 'desktop', as a background. That means that each of my 'desktops' sports its own decoration, it's own favorite iPhoto picture.
My joy----and let it be said that these days you take that commodity where you find it---was simply enhanced by discovering, with a new trackpad, how easy it is to flick from one 'desktop' to another.
My vote here is clearly in favor of this particular feature of Lion.
(And for Tom Piper, I'll say that 'yes, I noticed right away that the Lion's teeth were not cleaned at the top.) . . . Editor's Note: you had to be at the Sept. 6 appleJAC MUG meeting for this one.
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