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Suggestion for Apple Spaces
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I just got leopard, and I realized this. Apple should have made it so you can set different backgrounds for different spaces. Perhaps they should include it in an update some time? I think this feature would be nice.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Canada... be nice, eh?
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VirtueDesktop had this feature, and it was nice!
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
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You don't really want that feature and I'll tell you why...
Spaces is nothing more than a fancy window management utility. Think about it, the desktop, menu bar, and dock don't move. All it does it keeps track of window arrangements and moves them around. This is brilliantly simple, and not very resource intensive. If you had a different desktop for each space, the RAM requirement would be prohibitive.
Spaces is pure Apple--simple and elegant.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Toronto, ON
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as nice as Spaces is, I have to disagree chabig.
True, it would take a bit of ram, but honestly, how much RAM is actually used by applying a desktop background? The benefit is, true, the point behind virtual desktops in all the OSes that have previously had them, is to help you organize your work, managing your applications that are in use, especially when limited by one monitor. The negative is, at times you lose track of which desktop you are on (imagine if you minimize the applications in a virtual desktop, switch to it and then you have no idea what was going on there.
The best analogy I can think of is if you are using a KVM to switch between computers and lose track of which computer you are on. The best way to instantly recognize what computer you are on is by the background. Likewise, if Spaces offered us a similar feature, just simply allowing unique backgrounds for each space, it solves a problem many are going to end up stumbling upon as they use Spaces more and more.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Originally Posted by chabig 
You don't really want that feature and I'll tell you why...
Spaces is nothing more than a fancy window management utility. Think about it, the desktop, menu bar, and dock don't move. All it does it keeps track of window arrangements and moves them around. This is brilliantly simple, and not very resource intensive. If you had a different desktop for each space, the RAM requirement would be prohibitive.
Spaces is pure Apple--simple and elegant.
Desktop images take at most a few megs of VRAM... nothing prohibitive there.
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