Re: Spaces, Exposé, Dashboard
IMHO, it's both wasteful of valuable function keys and inefficient UI design to assign Exposé and/or Spaces calls to the function keys. I'm already using my function keys in Photoshop and other apps. Besides, reaching for the keyboard for such frequently used features is a pain. Maybe I'm just too lazy.
Since the four corner pixels of the screen are the most easily and quickly accessible, triggering them requires a simple, quick snap of the mouse in their general direction without fear of overshooting. I've set the top left to all windows, top right to desktop, bottom left to Spaces, and bottom right to Leopard's new Sleep Monitor. I have no need for application windows since it's a subset of all windows.
But the beauty in this is that I can drag files right off the Finder in one space, toward the bottom-left corner to trigger spaces, into another space, toward that space's top-left corner to view all windows if needed, and drop them into my After Effects project. Of course this irritates anyone else using my Mac because their undisciplined hands constantly hit the corners, triggering Exposé or Spaces. But I experienced the same when I first activated the corners. In time, my control of the mouse became more disciplined and I rarely if ever accidentally hit the corners anymore. On the plus side, those watching me work, especially Windows users, are amazed by my efficiency and speed (it's not me, it's the Mac).
Having said all this, I still haven't found a good flow for Spaces simply because spreading windows across different spaces tends to fly in the face of multitasking. Sure, the computer is multitasking, but I as the human now have fewer windows in my direct line of site.
Samrod
