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VirtueDesktops - 0.54 Beta 5

virtual desktop manager

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Current Version: 0.54 Beta 5
Release Date: 2007-12-17
License: Beta
Downloads (this version): 4,013
Downloads (all versions): 106,796

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Product Description:

VirtueDesktops is a virtual desktop manager for Apple's Mac OS. It offers features, eye candy and configurable options that no other desktop manager on the mac has added yet. Sadly, VirtueDesktops is no longer under active development.

Below are some of the key features of VirtueDesktops.
  • Virtual screens: an unlimited number of virtual screens at your disposal
  • Eye candy: exciting transitions and window fading
  • Universal binary: runs at full speed on your shiny new intel-based mac
  • AppleScript-able: script your desktop experience
  • Unobtrusive: VirtueDesktops does not clutter your desktop - it gets in, switches your virtual screen and then quietly hides itself, waiting for your next request
  • Extensible: install plugins to add additional features
  • Exposé: works well with Apple’s Exposé
  • Keeps you informed: notifications and current desktop display orient you as you work across multiple virtual screens
  • "Stick-ify" your windows or applications: Make your windows and applications visible across all of your virtual screens

What's new in this version:

  • Fixes to localisation;
  • Miscellaneous fixes for stability;

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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VirtueDesktops CommentaryNotes on 0.54b5 - Version: 0.54 Beta 5, 12/20/2007 10:50AM PST

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derekcurrie
The developer's website has a short note about beta 5, so I thought I'd post it here:

VirtueDesktops 0.54 Beta 5
13-06-2007
"I am not picking up development of VirtueDesktops again, but there were a couple of really good patches submitted that address serious crashes. If you have any issues with this release, please understand it is wholly unsupported.

"Always remember to back-up your VirtueDesktops preferences before running any beta version.

"All work done in this beta was done by Florent Bruneau."

-- Derek sez::
-> I don't know if the displaced application focus bug from beta 4 has been fixed. If it has I will post.
-> The developer's website has been repaired so that navigation is now functional.
:-D
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VirtueDesktops CommentaryHuh? - Version: 0.54 Beta 5, 12/18/2007 09:35AM PST

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SpafTh
Why is this showing up now? The date on the application file is 13 June 2007. And last I looked at the developer's site, they had stopped development due to Leopard / Spaces.

Have they reconsidered? That would be nice, as VirtueDesktops has some features that Spaces lacks.
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VirtueDesktops CommentaryBug in 0.54 Beta 4 found + Problems at developer's site - Version: 0.54 Beta 4, 12/7/2007 07:22PM PST

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derekcurrie
I found an annoying bug in 0.5.4 Beta 4. If you start seeing this happen, then switch back to Beta 2. (There was no Beta 3 release to the public).

Problem: You click on a window for an application and find you are now in some other unintended application. Example: You have TextEdit and Stickies open. You are in a Finder window. You click on a Stickies note and find yourself in TextEdit instead. So you have to click the Stickies note a 2nd time to actually get there. This is a repeatable problem. Quitting VirtueDesktops stops it.

If anyone finds this is due to some setting in VirtueDesktops, please let us know.

Meanwhile, you can get to the Home page of http://virtuedesktops.info/ but that is all. If you try to hit any other links, the developer's server throws a string error. If anyone finds this problem has been resolved, please post.

:-Derek
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