Virtue

Howdy,

Thanks very much for taking up the mantle for virtual desktop software on OS X. This is the only one that currently works on my intel-based powerbook.

Bug: Frequently when switching desktops, I get a menu bar where the text from two different programs has been overwritten, resulting in a muddled mess. It appears to me that the menu bar text that is not getting correctly erased is that for Adium, which I have set to appear on all desktops. So going from e.g. Firefox on one desktop to Mail.app on another, I end up with active Mail.app menus, but Adium’s menu text is still there.

I’d also like to add my voice to those anxiously calling for a desktop pager. It really helps with spatial orientation—knowing where you are in the set of desktops. Thanks very much for allowing a matrix of desktops, with up- and down-switching as well. That was one of my chief regrets about Desktop Manager. A really nice feature to shoot for is being able to drag windows from desktop to desktop on the pager.

Finally, while I appreciate very much the work you’ve done here, my dollars of appreciation may end up being sent to CodeTek instead of you. I absolutely love the focus-follows-mouse feature of CTVD, and if they get to market with a mactel version (Bill says “4 weeks”), I’m simply going to have to go with that solution.

Best Regards,

Andy Jacobson