Not being able to rearrange Spaces and full-screen apps (which were stuck on the far right) meant you had to use a variety of workarounds and pre-planning if you wanted to have a workspace that made sense. Now, thankfully, you can set up your workspace however you want it and not worry about dragging every single window into a new Space if you want to change their order.
There are still a few illogical usability hiccups, like not being able to drag app windows from one display’s mission control to the other’s. And the update introduces some new multi-display confusion, since rearranging spaces on one screen switches them on the other as well. But one of the biggest reasons we weren’t altogether taken by Lion was how unfriendly it was to powerish users, and this is a sign that Apple’s listening at least a little bit.
amiga_tone
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 8:50 AMDid anyone else read 10.2.7 and wonder how long ago that was?
maddogeco
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 9:07 AMi think that should be 10.7.2??
amiga_tone
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 9:47 AMI’m thinking so too.
jack
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 10:33 AMstill typo there… think we might travel back to ten years ago :)
amiga_tone
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 8:51 AMUnnoticed? No. It was announced as a fix in the list of “Fixes” when patched I believe.
maddogeco
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 9:07 AMi hate mission control with a passion. Expose in leopard as was fantastic why would they break it so badly i want my relatively sized non stacked windows back.
tk
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 9:10 AMCan they please fix the annoying scrolling problem in iTunes where when you type an artist into the column browser to search, if you scroll it takes you back up to the top.
Simon
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 9:30 AMWhat’s with the dock on the left hand side when most apps tools sit there?
Peter
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 9:53 AMI guess it doesn’t “just work”
Thorbjørn
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 10:09 AMthanks for this post. I didnt notice until now. this really helps me a lot
Caesar Wong
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 12:18 PMHah! I didn’t even know this was a problem – I tried rerranging windows in Mission Control for the first time today, blissfully unaware that it wasn’t even possible before!
JonBOY
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 5:14 PMPersonally I think missin control is quite aweful, I much preferred spaces and expose as separate features in pre-lion OS X.
Often I activate mission control to get to a window thats at the back of my current desktop and after clicking on the window I want the desktop returns to normal but my desired window is still hidden behind other windows.
Swiping sideways to switch between desktops is good though.