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Sounds like a free version of Mac OS X to me.

(Fanboy downvote protection: I'm on my third year using a Mac. I love mag-safe. I love how it is usable out-of-the-box. I love the screen, the backlit keyboard. List goes on.

I was happy to see

  * window resizing by any border and a 
  * decent attempt at fixing fullscreen and virtual desktops in Lion this year.

For next update I'm hoping for Apple to introduce a

  * "super-intuitive CMD-Tab that will let you switch 
    through all you *windows* in the order the were last 
    used" and 
  * "Menus now follow your windows" so there's less need 
    to move across a laptop screen and a full Cinema 
    Display to find the menu. Sounds familiar btw.

A sad thing Gnome keeps copying not only the good stuff but also the super annoying.)

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  > decent attempt at fixing fullscreen and virtual desktops in Lion this year.

I'm confused, because I found both of these things to be horrendous. Not trying to flame or troll or anything, just curious.

I liked the Spaces implementation in Snow Leopard. It had faults, but I could define a NxM grid of virtual desktops and rely on them always being there. In Lion I get a horizontal strip of N + (Number of Fullscreen Apps), no exceptions.

Which brings me to my next point: Fullscreen is entirely broken. There are two cases where I used fullscreen before, and Lion broke them both:

1. Fullscreen terminal windows. I don't want a logical "Space" for that, I just want a terminal that's the full width and height of my display, then I can Cmd+Tab to other windows (browser, etc) to bring them forward or back as necessary. Thankfully iTerm 2 lets me restore pre-Lion functionality here.

2. Video. I frequently fullscreen a video on my laptop display while working on a second display, and tell Quicktime to display on every desktop. In Lion, if I fullscreen Quicktime, it blanks my second display (seriously who thought this was a good plan?) and moves itself to its own space. VLC kind of covers for me here.

I'm just curious what you like about spaces and fullscreen in Lion, because I'm having difficulty thinking of anything good about them.

     * "super-intuitive CMD-Tab that will let you switch 
       through all you *windows* in the order the were last 
       used" and

Ugh! Please no! Switching between application rather than window is my main reason of switching to Mac back in PowerPC days.

You may love Witch[1] though. Or a good-ol' Ctrl+(fn)+F4.

[1] http://manytricks.com/witch/

No idea why someone would prefer app switching, but the info in your post proves you're an awesome person! I've looked all over for a window switching solution and never found ctl+fn+f4. Ahhh, much better.

"Menus now follow your windows" so there's less need to move across a laptop screen and a full Cinema Display to find the menu.

Maybe you're looking for SecondBar: http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79 ?

On OSX you can use Cmd+` to switch between the windows of the active app. The Cmd+Tab behavior on OSX was annoying to me too when I first started using a Mac but now that I'm used to the Cmd+Tab and Cmd+` combo I actually prefer it to the way Alt+Tab works in Windows.

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