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You Control: Desktops allows you to create virtual desktops that allow you to extend the functionality of Mac OS X. You can create a desktop for various workspaces that you define to help you organize your personal workflow. Create a desktop for your email. Create another for your image editing and organization. Create yet another for web-browsing. Each desktop can have it’s own background.
What's new in this version:
This update includes a number of Leopard compatibility fixes in addition to ongoing fixes and enhancements for both Tiger and Leopard.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
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major bugs are a real shame 
- Version: 1.3 b5, 1/24/2008 12:00AM PST
darkmooncalling
This thing about this app is that, although it looks very promising and useful, the Leopard beta (1.3 b5) completely fails to cut the mustard because of major bugs.
The hot keys you set to cycle between the desktops regularly stop working. You can get them working again by selecting a different desktop from the menubar menu, but that defeats the point of hot keys.
The pictures associated with each desktop regularly get mixed up - for instance, one desktop which had its own picture will suddenly show the picture of a different desktop, so you have to reset it. The same happens with the desktop icons. All in all the 'remembering' features don't work reliably at all.
The "identify current desktop" command very often fails to show anything.
It's not entirely clear how the app interacts with Spaces.
So there are at the moment major issues with this non-freeware beta software.
It would be nice if Apple extend their Spaces feature to accommodate some of this app's features.
The hot keys you set to cycle between the desktops regularly stop working. You can get them working again by selecting a different desktop from the menubar menu, but that defeats the point of hot keys.
The pictures associated with each desktop regularly get mixed up - for instance, one desktop which had its own picture will suddenly show the picture of a different desktop, so you have to reset it. The same happens with the desktop icons. All in all the 'remembering' features don't work reliably at all.
The "identify current desktop" command very often fails to show anything.
It's not entirely clear how the app interacts with Spaces.
So there are at the moment major issues with this non-freeware beta software.
It would be nice if Apple extend their Spaces feature to accommodate some of this app's features.
Is it worth spending thirty bucks when you have Spaces in 10.5? - Version: 1.3 b5, 12/6/2007 01:26PM PST
Edwin-schemer
I used this software on Intel before 10.5 and it worked nicely, but is there a point spending an extra thirty bucks for it if you are running 10.5 and can use Spaces?
It is true that Spaces misses a few of the nice features of Desktops, like being able to
have a different wallpaper on each virtual desktop or naming them. On the other hand, Spaces is more stable, has easy shortcuts and interacts nicely with the Apple mouse.
Maybe the "You Control" developers should concentrate on enhancing Spaces before Apple adopts their features.
It is true that Spaces misses a few of the nice features of Desktops, like being able to
have a different wallpaper on each virtual desktop or naming them. On the other hand, Spaces is more stable, has easy shortcuts and interacts nicely with the Apple mouse.
Maybe the "You Control" developers should concentrate on enhancing Spaces before Apple adopts their features.
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- Is it worth spending thirty bucks when you have Spaces in 10.5?
Spaces is not a virtual desktop manager; it's an application manager. Virtual Desktop applications --when done right-- allow you to organize things not by application but by project or task. If I need to have a browser window open for general browsing on one virtual desktop and another open to test what I'm developing on that virtual desktop, a good virtual desktop manager can handle that.
Virtual Desktoop Managers don't force you to switch to another desktop just because you clicked on an icon in the dock (hey... where'd I go?!? I just want the app in front so I can open a new window you stupid OS).
If you like Spaces fine, but it's not a virtual desktop manager. It's in a special category of its own. If someone can figure out how to hack Spaces it can be reconfigured to run as a virtual desktop manager, great. Until then, this product seems to work great (granted I'm testing it under 10.4), allows me to do what I want _and_ allows me to re-upgrade to 10.5.