Different folders for different desktops in Mission Control

Hi, I have just login into this apple community, because I NEED AND I WANT EXACTLY the same as you asked.

I agree that it is very intuitive and logical what you are asking for.

I would really LOVE one desktop for work, other for media, and other personal stuff. Everyone with each different files, icons and folders.

Apple! Please, look at this POST ans find a way to this!!!

Thanks!

Actually, that's the point of Mission Control. I never used Spaces, but now it is dead simple

Open Mission Control (F3 by default, or by gesture -four fingers up-), to see the desktops you already have. While in MC, point to the right up corner and a "+" tab will let you add a new desktop. Then you can arrange by drag and drop any apps between desktops!

Note that every app in full screen mode has its own desktop/space, and it's not possible to add any other app to it, or move it to another. To accomplish that, exit full screen mode, and that app would be added to the next desktop available. Then you can move it as described before.

Hope it helps.

Rolando

By the way, even though it's possible that Apple reads our discussions, this is a user-to-user forum only. If you want help and/or advise, you're in the right place. But if you want to feedback Apple, you can do it in the right channel:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Regards,

Rolando

Thanks Rolando, but we are not talking about different windows on different desktops... It is about icons and folders on different desktops.

Well, personal opinion, I think 🙂 Sorry if I didn't understand your specific concerns.

What is the problem in opening just the folders you need on every different desktop? Having all your files and apps available on every desktop is a good thing, as I see it.

Why should a desktop be "cluttered" with apps you are not using, if they can be moved from or closed on that desktop? What icons are on your way that may cause annoyance to a specific desktop?

And unless I'm mistaken on this one, you can just leave opened any apps in any desktops for any specific, special purpose, when you restart or sleep your Mac. The Resume feature should restore all of that, I assume.

Regards,

Rolando

Zedius, please, if you get any feedback from Apple, please post it in here.

And I agree again with the cluttered icons.

It would be nice to have different image backgrounds too.

Good luck for us.

asterisco wrote:

It would be nice to have different image backgrounds too.

You can already do this with Mission Control:

Just use System Preferences on each Desktop to set the background you want.

Regards,

Colin R.

I agree and would like the feature you are asking for, similar to some linux distributions. I'd even like to take it further and lock specific documents to a desktop when open IE music_manual.pages opens on the "music" desktop and accounting_budget.pages opens in my "financial" desktop. As for quickly opening applications, have you looked into quicksilver or alfred? They allow you to use key commands to quickly open applications with out leaving aliases on the desktop.

This is intriguing, not least of all because the semantic problem of using the word "desktop" to refer to completely different things has made some people pretty grumpy

I use compulsively pushing the envelope of my work environment as a way to keep my scripting skills in shape, and so I couldn't resist doing a quick proof-of-concept to see if implementing what you want is possible without hacking anything that an average users shouldn't touch. There's a very workable solution at the level of what I think of as "elegant band-aids." I can see it would even possible to have it both ways - a desktop shared between all spaces and one that's unique to each space.

It is. It's not even difficult - it requires understanding a few simple concepts, basic familiarity with Automator, enabling the root account on your system and about 5 lines of AppleScript that I've already written and tested.

I'm going to do it for my own use, but if anyone else wants it, just ask and I'll type up the instructions. If enough people want it, I'll write a script to automate it. lleH, if there's a clamor, I'll write an little app. I can understand why Apple would choose not to implement it in the interest of elegance and simplicity, but also understand why expert users would like to complicate matters just a bit.

r bryan, now I'm curious!

post the instructions please!

Ok. I've put it in the queue, and we'll get to it in a day or so.

Of course I'm easily manipulated by attention and would probably dump some other far more important project if it turned out sufficient other primates were offering major monkey points for pleasing them…

-Bryan

At the risk of appearing repetitive, I would be VERY interested in learning if I can place DIFFERENT icons (ie app shortcuts, folders, etc) on DIFFRENT desktops. THANKS!

Ah - I'm glad you asked.

The operation was a success, but the patient died. The confusion (and bizarrely unnecessary vitriol in some cases) here is all about the failure to understand that the Desktop is nothing more or less than the folder ~/Desktop. Sure, the window for ~/Desktop is mandatory, open all the time, always in icon view, and has no graphic elements other than a background image, but still… It's just a folder, and with sufficient permissions, you can do whatever you like with it.

You can create as many "desktop" folders as you like, turn ~/Desktop into a symbolic link or alias, and programmatically point it at your different space-associated desktop folders as part of the process of switching to different spaces. It's an elegant applescript or shell script notion that doesn't require hacking code that'll only be broken by future updates, but…

The problem is that the Finder is slow to notice and update its display. Relaunching it works, but it's jarring, ugly, and has undesirable side effects. So while the whole concept works just fine, I haven't found a way to make it worth implementing. It's just not acceptable to have anything so ubiquitous be even the slightest bit awkward or ugly. Even tiny glitches quickly begin to feel like having a grain of sand stuck in your eye.

If anybody wants to talk about it at more length, chat me up at aim: laughingboot; yahoo: laughingboot; or googletalk: laughingboot@gmail.com. I feel sure there's a solution out there somewhere, but I'm just too swamped to hunt it down right now.

-Bryan