Can I get Snow's Spaces back? Among others...

as stated in your last post..you might want to stick with 10.6

No one here can answer your questions.This discussion board is for user to user communication about apple products. Your points are based on your opinion about LION. You will get responses from other users here with similar and opposing opinions.

One answer for you, as I used spaces extensively in SL and have been using "spaces" or the desktops in Lion for some time now. The spaces will not work as they did in SL and this took some getting used to for me as well. However, I have found the desktops to be a much better implementation in Lion. I have found the full screen apps to be more efficient than trying to find a window on a cluttered desktop. I have also found that the gestures work extremely well with a Magic Trackpad, which is probably a better choice than the mouse for Lion. You can customize the gestures extensively in Lion in the system preferences.

Dashboard essentially operates identically in Lion and SL except that it is a desktop in Lion, the keyboard shorcut keys work for Dashboard so that should not be a problem.

Mission control works well too, I think the desktop implementation in Lion is much speedier than Exposé in SL. I have not used Lion with a mouse as I purchased the Magic Trackpad at about the same time I installed Lion. A four finger upward swipe gives me Mission Control and is much faster than SL Exposé

I have not yet found the Launchpad to be as useful as I had hoped, I am still tied to the dock and finder for apps but I can see where the Launchpad may have its uses.

I have a late 2008 Air with only 2GB RAM and probably pushing the limits for Lion. With that said, it seems to operate fairly well on my Air and the Desktops as well as Mission Control are faster and more efficient for me than their counterparts in SL.

Hope this helps a little.

I am using full screen both on the 13" Air screen and on the 23" LED Display. The full screen apps work well with both displays and resize appropriately. You can still assign applications to desktops, which is similar to how spaces used to work. You will not be able to use SL spaces and Exposé, they work differently in Lion, it is integrated into the operating system. I prefer the way they work in Lion compared to SL but that is simply my opinion.

I want to turn off the leather look too. I'm bewildered that Apple chose to add it.

What about the length of lines in things like email?

The screenshots I see all show really long lines, well over 50-80 character lines that are easier to read.

I'd be interested in what options there are for layout in the new mail program, and if you can make it look like the old one which I prefer.

You will not be able to use SL spaces and Exposé, they work differently in Lion,

Well, I don't really agree with this statement. They are setup differently, no question, but once there you can use it like you use it in SL.

I do!

control-n sends you to the nth-space and using Expose you can have all the spaces in one screen as in SL.

I think that may be some differences might exist when moving windows around, but I am not sure.

As for Dashboard, it is shown as a Space if you want it to be a Space.

I do and it is the same as before.

My reply to the OP was that he/she wanted to move the SL apps into the Lion OS, which is not possible. Another major difference with desktops is that you cannot specify you want a fullscreen app in a certain desktop and have it stay there, for example, desktop 4. Exposé does work differently in Lion so I was attempting to tell the OP that Lion Mission Control does not work the same, which I believe is true. The only view that you get is the desktops at the top and the selected desktop in the middle of the screen, you don't have the choice of all apps, etc. Thanks for the correction on the dashboard, I had forgotten it could be changed in sys prefs.

You can turn off auto-arrangement of desktops in the Mission Control prefs.

Currently, there is no way to get Snow Leopard's implementation back without reinstalling Snow Leopard.

Mission Control is it. With a magic trackpad, it's quite easy to get around. It wasn't so much fun without one.

I agree you can turn off auto-arrangement but here is the issue, I will give an example. Have 2 desktops open, then open mail in fullscreen then safari in fullscreen. Mail will be in the 3rd desktop and Safari in the 4th. If you quit mail then Safari is now in the 3rd desktop. If you reopen mail it is now in the 4th desktop. So Lion does not behave analogously to SL with respect to spaces. When you put an app in a space it stayed in that space. I have found this a bit disconcerting in Lion. It is much easier to zoom back and forth among desktops and simply not worry where the app is. This behavior won't occur if you do not use fullscreen apps but keep the app in the SL "window" view.

So I don't think that the desktops in Lion can be used the same as SL if you want to take advantage of fullscreen view, which I think is a great implementation.

Bradley,

just to clarify, while it is right that full screen will "mess things up" in terms of analogy with SL, SL does not have full screen, so if you are not going to use it, it will not be a matter to worry about.

Spaces, can have apps that open in ev every space or "no" space as it does in SL.

I live on Spaces I have 6 here (Lion) and 9 in my SL (t upgrade later).

Even though I agree that the trackpad with gestures faciltitates the use of Spaces, my MacBook (Lion) does not have such capabilites and I use Mission Control by means of a hot corner.

Different, but not that much.

As to if one should r should not upgrade to Lion it is one's decisions, one's needs is probably different than mine's.

But, I don't believe Spaces should be a hinderance.

The only "user" difference realy between SL and Lion is the geometry. Lion is linear while SL can be a mesh like geometry.