<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 26, 2008 9:25 AM, Jon Pruente <<a href="mailto:jdpruente@gmail.com">jdpruente@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's much easier to keep programs of various sorts grouped in to<br>viewable segments than having to manually minimize and maximize<br>windows as you work, or just leaving a ton of windows open and cycling<br>though them. In one VD you can have your music player open with the<br>
library available to navigate and in another VD you can have a full<br>screen web browser open and in yet another you can have your word<br>processor open where you are writing a report for college (or where<br>ever) and that's three VDs in use and organized with no window<br>
</blockquote></div>. . .<br>I have to be able to switch contexts quickly. Unfortunately, I am forced to use Windows, so at any given time I'll have over a dozen windows open, spread out across three monitors. The Windows virtual desktop Power Toy is a joke; it has to individually open and close each window, rather than having a completely separate space for each desktop. The spinning cube is not just eye candy; it is a demonstration of the fact that the VDs really are individual entities. When the phone rings, and I have to lose one context for another, then switch back when I'm done, it would be really nice to be able to do that with a key combo.<br>
<br>And one of the best uses of VDs is the Ultimate Boss Mode. If you have something going on that you really don't want anyone else seeing, you do it on a separate VD, so that when your boss or a co-worker walks up to your desk, you're just that quick key combo away from having it completely off your screen, leaving only the window(s) on the current VD showing.<br>