I know we're all mad about applications popping up and stealing focus but what about when they don't?
If you go to Expose Mission Control view and click on a window, it's moved to the top and gains focus. Makes sense
If you go to Mission Control view, put the cursor over a window, then close the view, the window is moved to the top but it doesn't gain focus. Whoever decided this thinks they are very clever but it results in me entering text into the wrong window many times a day
this is now a "complaining about task switching in macOS more generally" thread:
i love using multiple desktops and fullscreen apps! they help me keep my shit organized and focused. but the amount of time it takes to move between these is unbearable, and it blocks all keyboard input in the meantime, and the only way to turn off the animation and make it instant is to install a program that requires turning off some security thing??? that i don't even want to ask the IT guy at work whether i can mess with that!!
so i end up dumping everything onto a single desktop and using cmd-tab. horrendous.
it is a task switching in macOS more generally thread!
At least it's not as slow as the pause to everything when you add or remove a physical monitor!
The change apple made 5+ years ago1 now where you could no longer have your virtual desktops in a 2x2 grid killed a bunch of productivity in a way that I have literally never been able to recover from. In the 2x2 grid, it wrapped such that you could get between any of the desktops directly and I had my four desktops nicely organized and I could get to whatever I needed so quick
not looking up when because I'll be sad when I find out it's closer to a decade
this would probably explain why I keep being burned. it must have been introduced in one of the last few releases
