There are VMs out there that lets you get a true virtual desktop and makes it easier to handle. If you want space 1 to be web browsing, space 2 to be programming and such then it makes sense to only be able to access the programs associated to that space when tabbing.

Alternativly you could have one combination for tabbing between all programs and one combination for just tabbing between programs associated to that space.

Maybe in 10.5.1?

Time Machine does support shared-network folders for backup. I have my Mac Book set to sync to a shared folder on my Mac mini. The catch seems to, unfortunately, be that the other machine needs to run Leopard too.

* Spaces:
Spaces is missing a few key features that I feel would be greatly beneficial.
1) Allow me to name the spaces. I’m probably never going to assign an application to a
certain space, but move things around and my current task changes.

2) Show the dock in the spaces view.
3) Show window positions (outline) in the pager, and simply outline the currently
selected desktop. A number really means very little.

I feel you’ve tried to reinvent the wheel. Linux/BSD have had virtual desktops for a while, take some lessons from their development.

* Stacks:
It is my opinion that stacks, in it’s current form, is broken. I should not be
required to use them in every instance. The biggest of these examples would be
the Applications and Utilities folders I have located on my dock. Currently,
with stacks, my Applications folder looks as if it’s another link to my Address
Book. My Utilities folder looks like a link to Activity Monitor. I recommend
the following additions or changes:

1) Allow me to disable Stacks, on a per-folder basis, if possible.
2) Allow me to set the icon for a stack. There are cases, like the downloads folder
where I would like to keep stacks, but I hate the dynamic icons.

* Mail:
Please, please, please, build in support for GnuPG!

* Time Machine:
It would be nice if Time Machine supported *any* network accessible shared drive.
At home, we have a server with RAID/etc setup for backups. Currently, I back up
my Mac Book Pro and my Powerbook G4 via rsync across my network. Really, there
shouldn’t be any reason Time Machine shouldn’t support this. I would like to
see the following additions to Time Machine:

1) Support for “locations” and networks devices.
It would be nice if I could have a folder for work, that was backed up via
Time Machine to a work-accessible back up host. When I’m at home, let me
back up to my USB/Firewire HDD.
2) Support for network backup devices via AFP, Samba, and ssh/rsync.

I’ve also experienced trying to switch to an app in another space (NewsFire) not actually changing the space to that app. Right application focus, wrong space. Doh.

A real shame for an otherwise incredibly well-implemented feature. I hope Apple are aware of these issues.

FYI… when you’re in F8 “Birds Eye View” mode, you can drag specific windows and even whole spaces from one space to another.

The thing I like most about Spaces is that I no longer have to think in terms of which desktop I’m on. Now, I just focus on what I want to do. I use Command-Tab to switch to the application that I want to work in and boom, Spaces switches me to the appropriate desktop.

I no long have to think, “oh, let’s see, I put Mail on desktop 2, so let me switch over to desktop 2, then I can read my mail”. Now, I just Command-Tab to Mail and I’m there. Sweet!!

The entire point is to keep your desktop clean and use spaces as a task management system. So web design is in one space, and surfing is another.
Here is where the only feature spaces is lacking is the ability to name the spaces beyond numbers which would make the pager even more useful.
As for the application focus, that makes no sense. If you have 3 applications in one space, how does the OS know what app to give focus to. That is why what ever space I am in I just alt-tab to the app I need and it flips to that space giving that application focus. So to only have alt-tab show the spaces applications would be a bad idea. The point is to clear the clutter. Here is how to use spaces. Have lots of them. Safari in a space, ical and mail in a space, Dreamweaver/Coda in a space, Photoshop in a space, Illustrator in a space, Cyberduck in a space, adium in all spaces, ichat in all spaces, Snap in drag in all spaces. Not lets say I am reading an e-mail where a client wants a change on their website. Copy the text, cmd-tab to coda, space changes, coda has focus paste the text. Need to upload a file to the server, cmd tab to cyberduck, upload. Now I am not minimizing, see other pallets from other applications all over the place…. Simple!

When you fire up Spaces for the first time, if you have a virtual desktop program running, Spaces sees it and sorts your applications to the desktops your other manager had been using

Really?! That’s very interesting. I wrote a brief article on the history of Spaces here and the fact that Spaces retains settings from other desktop managers (probably) implies that it’s using the same system calls as exposed in CGSPrivate.h.

So if i go from Space 1 to 2 it will not automaticly focus on the program that should be focused there. So i have to click one on the app to activate it first. This is amazingly annoying after a while and takes away all the usability of Spaces. If im gonna use Spaces it should be painless and not take up extra time.

So now im better off not using Spaces and just tabbing between my programs as usual, then they are atleast automaticly focused.
My girlfriend also put forward a interesting suggestion, every space should be a separate desktop with a separate Apple+Tab list. So if you are in Space 3 you cannot Apple-Tab to programs that are in other Spaces.