You can choose to use Time Machine to back up your drive before installing
Leopard
The screen capture tool now displays pixel measurements for cursor placement (e.g. 548x640)
The Help menu is greatly enhanced. You can now search help documents directly from the menu. (See Screenshot below)
There is a new battery menu. It shows battery "health" as well offering a menu option to order a new battery. (See screenshot below)
In order to use Time Machine, you need to set up a backup drive in the "Time Machine" pane of System Preferences -- we can see Apple shipping the final version of Leopard with a live partitioning tool to create a backup partition for use with Time Machine.
Spaces preferences are co-located with Exposé in System Preferences. You can bind certain applications to certain spaces, meaning that is where they will always reside. (See screenshot below)
Spotlight needs to re-index the drive after Leopard is installed. In other words, indices generated by Tiger are not compatible with Leopard.
Spotlight also has new categorization: Categories for Web pages, System Preferences, definitions, PDF documents and more (See Screenshot below)
Performance is dramatically enhanced on Intel-based Macs. Menus and windows appear much faster, and Spotlight is much speedier.
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associated with multiple Spaces? For instance, I might want one space for each
of my instances of Parallels. Or I might want to have a separate space for each
customer I'm working on. Each space would have BBEdit, Safari, and Terminal
active and working.
In other words, is this a true virtual desktop, or just a variation of Hide Others?
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Most probably Yes,as long as you open a new window/document from the same app. For example we more often than not have a couple of word documents opened at once.We could have each of these documents in "different" Spaces.
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I'm not so sure - the Leopard preview shows each app entirely in one Space (I
looked carefully, because this was my first concern too), and they say you can
drag apps from one Space to another, not individual windows. They also talk
about switching to 'the Space" where an app is running when you click on it in
the Dock. My bet is: right now, an app can't be in two Spaces at once. But I'd
love to be proved wrong...
FYI, in Unix OSes, the ability to keep a window in all the workspaces is called
making the window sticky. I'm an OS X and Linux guy, and on one of my
Linux servers I keep 3 "spaces" with a monitoring application called gkrellm
[which you can run in OS X via fink] on all 3 spaces. That way, if I'm in "space
1" with 6 xterms open and i move to "space 2" with a browser window open,
gkrellm shows up in both.
I think this would be *very* useful in Mac OS X, as the Dock and Menubar are
not large enough to display large monitoring apps, plus, like the OP said,
having the same document open and being used in all spaces can be useful. I
guess the workaround is to simply drag and drop it from one space to the
next, but that isn't as efficiant as making the app/window sticky. Hopefully
Apple will consider the sticky option for the final release of Leopard.
/vjl/
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(5 Comments)CodeTek's VirtualDesktop Pro supports this on the Mac (as well as what happens
when new windows appear, what to do with panels, mouse pointer focus,
applescript execution on switching spaces, and lots of other useful stuff). I
suspect Spaces will be fine for basic use, but for power use people will still want
a third party solution. Let's just hope that Apple provides reasonable hooks to
let one move to a more advanced version easily.