Many people swear by Spaces, a feature on the Mac that allows you to have multiple desktops, and have applications “assigned” to each desktop. I think it’s a fantastic idea too, but using it together with multiple monitors just creates a bad experience.
The current problem with it now, in my opinion, is that Spaces takes all your monitors as one desktop. So if you switch from Space 1 to Space 2, all your monitor switch together. That makes using your spaces much harder to use. Ideally, each monitor should be able to have their own independent space, so that you can have better control of what goes where.
Until Apple incorporates this functionality, I won’t be using Spaces to its full potential. As such, I’ve resorted to using Spaces in a pretty “dumbed” down way while my Mac is plugged to my external LCD. Instead of a fancy 4×4 or 3×2 matrix or something, I only have 2 Spaces created. The first space is my “working” area where everything opens in by default, and my second space is my “all others” area, where I can throw things that I need open, but don’t have to refer to as much. These can be things like my FTP windows, my Mail window, my Adium, my Tweet Deck etc. Everything else has to be in the first space because I find that I work between them all the time (e.g. moving files, copying text, referring to documents, and so on).
I agree, In case you have a dual monitor system, like a powerbook conected to an external monitor. you should be able to deselect one of the monitors so it stays statics switching from space to space. I could put a video (getmiro) of itunes windows on the static monitor. The best way to implement could be in the system preferences / Display and a check box in the windows of each monitor that says: do not include in space.
No solution at all ? I was looking for that too, if somebody know something thanks for let me know…
here is the solution :
http://macbitz.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/making-sense-of-spaces-with-dual-monitors/