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Feb 7

Another gentle nudge in a Spacey direction

Double-click to play. Closer and closer my eager beta beavers, closer and closer…

At this stage, I need to clear a couple of things up:

Hyperspaces will be priced around $15 USD when it is released;
Hyperspaces augments Spaces - it doesn’t modify it’s behaviour. Hyperspaces won’t “fix” how Spaces interacts with windows or applications (at least not in version 1.0);

Still with me after that? Cool - I’m aiming for a public beta release at the beginning of March. Leah and I are settling the purchase of our first home next week, otherwise you’d have it sooner!

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guerom00 7 Feb 08 at 2:41am: Looks nice :)

Tony 7 Feb 08 at 2:53am

Ahh, but there’s not much to see there yet ;)

I’m currently negotiating to have a great UI designer do some work for me on Hyperspaces. It’s all very exciting!

Gee Threeforce 7 Feb 08 at 8:39pm: Could it be possible to create compiz-fusion like cube transitions for hyperspaces? That would be o so cool ;-)

Don 9 Feb 08 at 7:11am: I’m very excited about this release. Will there be any means of customizing or skinning the pager itself?

AlexN 9 Feb 08 at 9:02am: Price looks good, too. Although I will have to purchase a copy of Leopard to run it ;). But Hypersaces is the one app that would make me do so.

Randall 13 Feb 08 at 8:36am: Looks great Tony. Can’t wait for the beta!

kevteljeur 14 Feb 08 at 6:58am

I have my copy of Leopard sitting beside me, and there have been several things preventing me from upgrading: Time, having a backup-drive, the release of 10.5.2 (the well-documented ‘first-release’ bugs, and some of the UI stuff. I mean the dock, particularly.) and… Knowing that I’d lose my somewhat unstable but beloved VirtueDesktops. I really do use it a lot.

I also a little shy of trusting some of the documented hacks to make it work with Leopard. They’re a bit extreme.

I’ll have to make the jump from 10.4 to 10.5 very soon, but if you took pre-orders for Hyperspaces I’d be right in there already.

Mark Allan 15 Feb 08 at 11:44am

Hi Tony. I’m really looking forward to this being available. Would I be right in thinking that we can turn Apple’s Spaces off and just use this instead? The automatic switching between virtual desktops when I bring an app to the foreground is driving me nuts. Even more so than M$ Office!

PS. I’m a long time Mac developer, so if you need any beta testers give me a shout.

Mark Allan 17 Feb 08 at 10:43pm

….ah, patience is a virtue!

As of 10.5.2 we can now stop the auto-switching with: defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO killall Dock

Tony 23 Feb 08 at 5:59pm

@kevteljeur: There are hacks to run Virtue under 10.5? Virtue runs under 10.5, it just doesn’t work properly.

@Mark Allan: No, Hyperspaces augments Spaces - if you switch Spaces off, Hyperspaces will ask you to turn it back on. The two are linked.

Jake Tracey 26 Feb 08 at 4:39pm: Looks great Tony, can’t wait to give it a shot :)

Albe Gouws 28 Feb 08 at 11:09pm: Tony - will Hyperspaces have desktop switching via ambient light sensor and/or sudden motion sensor? That is the part I miss most!

Tony 28 Feb 08 at 11:15pm: @Albe Gouws: It doesn’t in the current alpha builds, but that’s why it’s alpha - I’m still determining the 1.0 feature set. It wouldn’t be a huge amount of work to put these in, but I’d want to make sure they work properly this time around.

Albe Gouws 29 Feb 08 at 1:24am: Cool thanks man. Hope u can get it to work. Looking forward.

Yann 1 Mar 08 at 0:22am: More and more interested for a beta test as soon as it will be released!

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