After updating to 10.5.3, Spaces now treats Finder as an application. So if you navigate to a page with no applications running and then back to a page that has applications running, Finder has the focus instead of the frontmost app.
• Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.
Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.
Fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space.
Resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.
One more reason to own a Mac. Especially with the alternative being, "Would you like to send error report (that no one will ever read)?"
Apple is the best =].
It definitely is better, but it's still not task oriented. If you have the same application open in two adjacent spaces and switch between the spaces, that application keeps focus even if a different one had focus the last time you were in that space. For example, if I have a terminal open in two adjacent spaces, and a browser in one of them, with the browser active, then I switch spaces from the browser to a terminal, then switch back, the terminal still has focus, though it should be the browser (because it was the last active application in the space I'm switching to).
All they did was remove the Finder from that functionality (which is an amazing improvement, don't get me wrong). But I still think that we should have a check box in the Spaces preferences asking what we want the default action to be - to go back to the last application that was active in a space, or to keep the same application active when we switch spaces. That would allow people to have either task-oriented spaces or sticky applications, depending on what they want. At present the only option is sticky applications, and I'm not a huge fan.
