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2002-07-26 17:42 / virtual desktops »
I've been using Space.app (screenshot large, small) for months now. It's good but it doesn't have all the features you'd expect. The most annoying for me is that it won't let you have different windows from the same app on different workspaces. This is of course a little crippling for anyone who likes lots of terms kicking about. But, the lovely author Riley Lynch has made it lovely QPL (interesting code to read, with all that process table stuff).
QPL'd unlike CodeTek's virtual desktop (screenshot large, small, pager bottom left), which is closed source and priced at $20. You're restricted to two workspaces till you pay. This does have all the features you'd want - apart from a slightly weird non-Aqua pager appearance, and icons rather than names for the mini-app windows - e.g. drag windows between desktops, auto-activation of last topmost window when you switch, the multi-window thing; it also mimics Windowmaker's 'after switching show desktop name in centre of screen then fade', which was once my rather lame reason for switching to Windowmaker from Afterstep.
So, do I (a) pay for codetek's, or (b) use my teach-myself-cocoa time to help hack Space. I think (b) - I just need some time.
