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Abandoned by You Software - Version: 1.3.1 beta 1, 9/26/2009 05:31AM PST
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scgf01
Spaces for the rest of us... or: what Spaces should have been - Version: 1.3.1 beta 1, 3/22/2009 03:08PM PST
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Eric van Beest
You Control Desktops (YCD) does what Spaces does, but has way more options and works in Mac OS X 10.4.
I have been using YCD for more than a year, in OS X 10.4 and now in 10.5. When Leopard's feature set was reported, it struck me that the Spaces function was the answer to my cluttered desktop. (I had used Jonathan Sav's Virtual Desktop before, but was turned off by the buggy nature of the product)
YCD lets you set up several virtual desktops, or workspaces if you like, along the lines of Spaces. But it allows you to have much more control over what appears where than Spaces. Unlike Spaces, you can set certain windows to appear in every window – handy for instant messaging apps as you move from window to window. You can also collect windows to whatever desktop you want. Different desktop pictures works well for me, reminding me of which desktop I am on.
Working with YCD in 10.4, losing the functionality for a while after upgrading to 10.5 (until You upgraded the program) was a real pain. Spaces is quite hamfisted, and there are serious compatibility issues with, amongst others, Microsoft Office applications which have yet to be resolved, never mind the bizarre window behavior (random disappearances, flipping desktops...).
YCD is not for everyone. But I'm quite happy with this product. Maybe Spaces will grow up in 10.6. Until then, I'll be using You Control Desktops.
I have been using YCD for more than a year, in OS X 10.4 and now in 10.5. When Leopard's feature set was reported, it struck me that the Spaces function was the answer to my cluttered desktop. (I had used Jonathan Sav's Virtual Desktop before, but was turned off by the buggy nature of the product)
YCD lets you set up several virtual desktops, or workspaces if you like, along the lines of Spaces. But it allows you to have much more control over what appears where than Spaces. Unlike Spaces, you can set certain windows to appear in every window – handy for instant messaging apps as you move from window to window. You can also collect windows to whatever desktop you want. Different desktop pictures works well for me, reminding me of which desktop I am on.
Working with YCD in 10.4, losing the functionality for a while after upgrading to 10.5 (until You upgraded the program) was a real pain. Spaces is quite hamfisted, and there are serious compatibility issues with, amongst others, Microsoft Office applications which have yet to be resolved, never mind the bizarre window behavior (random disappearances, flipping desktops...).
YCD is not for everyone. But I'm quite happy with this product. Maybe Spaces will grow up in 10.6. Until then, I'll be using You Control Desktops.
Don't buy this software !!! - Version: 1.3, 10/17/2008 07:28AM PST
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darkmooncalling
Don't buy this software!
This software does not work!
If I create a folder in one desktop - I can't open it! If I try to, it shakes a bit, but nothing happens. Then if I switch to another desktop I see that my trying to open the folder in the other desktop has created a meaningless "Desktop" window on THAT desktop.
If I follow the procedure to send the current window to another desktop, I go to the other desktop, but the window isn't sent - only another meaningless "Desktop" window opens in that desktop.
Then, I switch to another desktop - but the folders in that desktop don't appear - instead, other folders belonging to other desktops appear instead!
I switch again to another desktop, but multiple "Desktop" windows appear that I never created!
If in desperation I quit the "You Control engine" - I can't open any finder windows anyhow!!! I have to restart the machine!!
The menubar controls are a confused mass of menus and submenus, that no-one will ever understand. Even if it worked (which it doesn't), it's a model of poor design, failure of implementation and laughable efficiency.
This software is a mess, and a joke!
I might as well have set fire to some banknotes this evening!
How can they get away with this?
DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE - YOU WILL REGRET IT INSTANTLY, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE NO SUPPORT OR REFUND.
This software does not work!
If I create a folder in one desktop - I can't open it! If I try to, it shakes a bit, but nothing happens. Then if I switch to another desktop I see that my trying to open the folder in the other desktop has created a meaningless "Desktop" window on THAT desktop.
If I follow the procedure to send the current window to another desktop, I go to the other desktop, but the window isn't sent - only another meaningless "Desktop" window opens in that desktop.
Then, I switch to another desktop - but the folders in that desktop don't appear - instead, other folders belonging to other desktops appear instead!
I switch again to another desktop, but multiple "Desktop" windows appear that I never created!
If in desperation I quit the "You Control engine" - I can't open any finder windows anyhow!!! I have to restart the machine!!
The menubar controls are a confused mass of menus and submenus, that no-one will ever understand. Even if it worked (which it doesn't), it's a model of poor design, failure of implementation and laughable efficiency.
This software is a mess, and a joke!
I might as well have set fire to some banknotes this evening!
How can they get away with this?
DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE - YOU WILL REGRET IT INSTANTLY, AND YOU WILL RECEIVE NO SUPPORT OR REFUND.
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- Very responsibve support; very promising work
What a shame - the app is indeed what Spaces should have been. I am now forced to use Spaces and I am finding it very clumsy in comparison.
There appear to be no third-party virtual desktop apps - a great pity given the Unix underpinnings of OS X.