On Sep 23, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Ashgrove wrote:
On Sep 23, 7:34 pm, Joshua Juran <jju...@gmail.com> wrote:
Um, no. First of all, dialup connections are per-user, not system-
wide, so if you switch users the connection drops. My current phone
allows tethering over Bluetooth by providing a modem interface, so on
the road I'd have to configure it for each user and reconnect on
every
switch. Oh, and the phone side is a bit flaky so I have to reboot
the
phone in between connections. This is a dealbreaker.
I have been fortunate enough to have DLS for years now, so I am not
familiar with that issue. Sobering, though, the fact that almost in
the second decade of the 21st century, and in the country with the
greatest economy in the world, communications technologies are still
lagging behind in many places. LEM columnist Charles Moore just got
broadband in Nova Scotia, and it's still flaky.
"so *on the road* I'd have to configure it for each user..." Emphasis
added.
I have pretty good cable Internet at home. But occasionally I use my
laptop away from home and outside of a wireless hotspot.
(1) Go to a space with windows for apps A and B and activate app A.
(2) Switch to a space with windows for app B but not app A. App B
activates (assuming it owns the front window).
(3) Switch back to the other space. App B remains frontmost.
(When app B is the Finder, this happens even if the second screen has
no windows at all.)
See, 'current application' is a system-global property. I want it to
be maintained per-space.
I finally see what you mean. But if you assign several apps to
different spaces and keep them open, that's a moot point. To switch
spaces, I just click on the app icon in my Dock, and that
simultaneously takes me to its space and makes that application the
current one. Two birds with one stone.
That would be great if my workflow divided neatly into separate
applications. Sure, I have a space for chat and a space for mail, and
those apps are assigned to those spaces. But each of them is also
littered with Web windows from clicking on links (or because I
searched for something relevant to a conversation). And most of my
spaces have a Terminal window so I can quickly do Web searches.
(Yes, clicking the Terminal window and typing 'go<TAB>spatial finder'
is faster than sending the query through the Web browser UI, even if
Google is your home page. The Tab keystroke completes the command
'google', which is a Perl script that constructs the search query URL
and calls open(1) to load it in a Web browser. Other commands include
'lucky', 'image', and 'wp' (Wikipedia).)
Josh
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