Spaces Chaos

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Spaces Chaos

Hi,
I have been reading a lot about the problems with spaces in SL - guess I am one of many. Here is my basic problem: I can switch between spaces with cmd + no, so far so good. I cannot seem to get the spaces icon on my dock at the the bottom of the page (I watched a training video to figure out how to use spaces) and I cannot figure out, how to see all of the spaces at the same time and move apps from one to the other. Anybody know of a vid that could show me - or somewhere with an easy to understand explanation?
And last question, has anyone found a way yet to stop applications from jumping all over all spaces despite being assigned to only one?
To me it looks like it might be better to stop using spaces rather than having to work with this rather erratic tool. At the moment it creates more clutter than it is worth.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Aug 17, 2010 9:02 AM

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McYukon

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Aug 17, 2010 3:29 PM in response to ravenowl

To get the Spaces application into the dock, go to Applications>Utilities folder and drag it to the Dock.
The shortcut to see all spaces is F8 by default, on laptops use fn+F8.
What applications in particular are you having problems with? There are a few applications that do not play well with Spaces, like Photoshop.

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ravenowl Author

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Aug 19, 2010 2:10 AM in response to ravenowl

Thanks for the tip, got spaces in the dock! And you are right, photoshop messes things up. The others seem to behave. Is there any way to get PS to do it or just accept that it 'jumps'?

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McYukon

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Aug 19, 2010 1:26 PM in response to ravenowl

If there is a way to keep Ps locked to one space I haven't found it yet.
This problem that some applications have can only be fixed by applications developer, but you would think that a 900$ software would support spaces.

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ravenowl Author

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Aug 20, 2010 5:09 PM in response to McYukon

Thanks for your answer. I agree, its a bit disappointing for such a sophisticated programme. So I'll just put up with the wandering PS.

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JAlger

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Oct 14, 2010 8:53 AM in response to ravenowl

Instead of letting Adobe Creative Suite apps wander, I set them to 'Every Space' in the Spaces preferences. While you might not ideally want them to show up in all spaces, I find it's easier than having to hunt around for which spaces window it's hiding in.

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Nov 2, 2010 2:03 PM in response to JAlger

According to Chris Cox of Adobe forums, apps shouldn't have knowledge of spaces but vice versa, and that makes sense to me. CS5 is written with all Cocoa APIs so OS should handle it's own standard correctly.

Please read the third post down in following link before raining hellfire on Adobe:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3114117

Until someone from Apple responds, there is only one side of the story. And until then, I'm just another digital age artist trying to earn his dinner despite an atmosphere of political/corporate finger-pointing and half-assed workarounds to make tools function sort of how they are advertised to.

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