I admit to not having much use for one of Leopard’s big ticket features, Spaces. Sure, it sounds cool that you can have several desktops and organize yourself and switch between them with slick swipe animations but I find my messy desktop a lot more comfortable and homely. Plus, Spaces really limits the usefulness of Exposé and I’m so in love with that feature that I feel I’m being disloyal to it if I start using Spaces extensively. Let’s just say that I’m a very sensitive fellow and leave it at that, shall we?
However, for those of you who love to Space-hop on your Leopard based Macs, we have a tip from Macworld hintmeister Rob Griffiths that promises to make your life just a little bit easier. You must be knowing that you can assign applications to specific spaces so that they always open in that one. All you have to do is click on that Plus (+) button on the left, add an application and select a space from the drop down menu to the right. Sounds easy enough, right?
Apparently not. It involves a lot of clicking on stuff and not any dragging and dropping, you see, and that’s just not how Apple rolls. Any feature worth its salt gotta have some of that mousey drag and drop fun. Therefore, instead of going to all the trouble outlines above, you can just drag any application from the Finder and drop it over any one of the little numbered spaces in the overview pane to assign the application to the corresponding space. Click-drag-drop, done. Now that’s more like it.
