Spaces/Sheet Bug in Leopard
Posted November 1st, 2007 @ 06:55pm by Erik J. Barzeski
In using MarsEdit, I noticed what I at first thought was a bug in MarsEdit, but which turns out to be a bug or a usability flaw in Mac OS X 10.5 regarding Spaces.
I contacted Daniel Jalkut, and he put together a test application (TestSpaces) that displays the behavior simply:
- Open a TextEdit window in Space 1.
- In Space 2, open the TestSpaces app.
- Click the button in the TestSpaces app, then switch to Space 1 and type some characters in your TextEdit document.
- When the TestSpaces sheet automatically closes itself, you're automatically taken back to Space 2.
- Type some more characters, then switch back to Space 1. Note that what you typed appears in TextEdit - which wasn't even in the space you were looking at when you typed them!
Needless to say, this is a problem. At least two things are wrong here:
- When I switch away from an application, the closing of a sheet should not be enough to bring me back to its Space.
- When I'm looking at a space, the key window should not be in another space.
I've filed a bug report (#5574819).
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Posted 01 Nov 2007 at 7:51pm #
[...] one way in which it sort of behaves awkwardly with MarsEdit. Fortunately, one of my customers noticed the problem and dropped me a line. I did some research and discovered what I believe to be the following [...]
Posted 02 Nov 2007 at 12:01am #
I've seen similar behavior in other applications. It's especially annoying with VMware running full screen in one space and Windows puts up an alert while you're in a different space. It will switch to the VMware space and back to the original space. One time it just kept switching back & forth quickly between two spaces when that happened.
Posted 03 Nov 2007 at 4:10pm #
Marked as duplicate of #5479476.
Posted 05 Nov 2007 at 1:44pm #
[...] course, I'd have to add to the list a clarification that actions like the automatic closing of a sheet should not take you back to another space, [...]
Posted 07 Nov 2007 at 8:09am #
[...] one way in which it sort of behaves awkwardly with MarsEdit. Fortunately, one of my customers noticed the problem and dropped me a line. I did some research and discovered what I believe to be the following [...]
Posted 12 Sep 2009 at 9:15am #
[...] I just noticed that this bug - a bug that affected sheets and Spaces in Mac OS X - appears to be fixed in Snow [...]