Windows 10 has had pretty much the exact same feature since some time last year, except instead of having to grab a tiny button you can click anywhere on the title bar
I can tell you it's a fuckload more thought out and intuitive in OSX, both in terms of activation, usage, and implementation. Took me forever to figure out how it really worked in Windows 8, and it still often confuses me. On OSX all the decisions just make sense are nice little touches everywhere.
Now I know you are trying to abuse Windows, but since the vast majority of people can understand Windows 8/8.1 split screen in seconds, this might not be the example you want to use.
I wish Apple would figure out that Mac users are power users and don't want features designed for the limitations of iOS ported over. It's like Apple is saying "Hey we developed these awesome training wheels for iOS and we know Mac users are going to love them too." Frankly, it's insulting. There's plenty of room for improvement to MacOS X, but I have never once heard anyone say, hey I wish there was a way to split the screen between two apps. I have resizable windows. It works great. I have many apps open at once. This is just dumb.
You think split screen ability is dumb when it is a feature to align the user experience for iOS users with mobile OSX users? Your opinion on this is what's really dumb! Mac Power users with large screen will likely have less to no use, but this wasn't made for such users.
I can tell you it's a fuckload more thought out and intuitive in OSX, both in terms of activation, usage, and implementation. Took me forever to figure out how it really worked in Windows 8, and it still often confuses me. On OSX all the decisions just make sense are nice little touches everywhere.
Now I know you are trying to abuse Windows, but since the vast majority of people can understand Windows 8/8.1 split screen in seconds, this might not be the example you want to use.
You are being too generous. The vast majority of Windows 8/8.1 users can barely find an email attachment, much less even know what a "split screen" is or why they might need it.
You are being too generous. The vast majority of Windows 8/8.1 users can barely find an email attachment, much less even know what a "split screen" is or why they might need it.
I am a power user, but I also know it can be a nuisance to reorganize windows so that they have maximum real estate while not overlapping. So I think split-view has promise for a desktop OS as well. My hope is that focus can follow the cursor in spit screen view. Apple's putting the window menu on the top of the screen rather than the top of the window has always seemed something of a flaw to me, because it prevents focus following the cursor (were focus to follow the cursor you could accidentally change apps in moving the cursor from the window to the menu bar by passing over another open window). But the fluid simultaneous use of both windows shown in the split-view demonstration in the Keynote for iOs 9 makes me think focus following the cursor may happen.
I also hope this post doesn't incite rants. People should be able to have different ideas about how to improve an OS without calling each other idiots.
I am a power user, but I also know it can be a nuisance to reorganize windows so that they have maximum real estate while not overlapping. So I think split-view has promise for a desktop OS as well. My hope is that focus can follow the cursor in spit screen view. Apple's putting the window menu on the top of the screen rather than the top of the window has always seemed something of a flaw to me, because it prevents focus following the cursor (were focus to follow the cursor you could accidentally change apps in moving the cursor from the window to the menu bar by passing over another open window). But the fluid simultaneous use of both windows shown in the split-view demonstration in the Keynote for iOs 9 makes me think focus following the cursor may happen.
I also hope this post doesn't incite rants. People should be able to have different ideas about how to improve an OS without calling each other idiots.
I work between Mac and Windows a lot and I have often thought that it would be a nice option to have the choice of the two variances you describe in OS X. If in an Apps's preferences you could select the default as now or to have the menu on the windows, would be nice to have. Working as I have for years on multiple massive screens there is a lot of mouse travel involved to get to top menus even with tracking on maximum as mine always is, your eyes and head still have to move.
Most Windows users tend to use apps that make sense side-by-side. Makes sense for them. Most of my apps require a good amount of horizontal real estate.
Don't want to seem like a windows fanboi here, but I actually find the Windows Arrow key combo quite efficient to quickly send a a window to the left or right border. That's probably why I love the "Magnet" app on my Mac so much...
But I wonder if I'm the only one who has a problem with the initial "Desktop1 - Desktop2..." placeholders when opening mission control. Yosemite gives my previews of all my desktops immediately, which I find very helpful to quickly navigate desktops. Now I have to mouse up first to see the previews. Did I miss some configuration option to keep the old behaviour?
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Windows 10 has had pretty much the exact same feature since some time last year, except instead of having to grab a tiny button you can click anywhere on the title bar
Now I know you are trying to abuse Windows, but since the vast majority of people can understand Windows 8/8.1 split screen in seconds, this might not be the example you want to use.
Split view... Welcome to Windows 8
Actually its been around since Windows 7 (2009)...
You think split screen ability is dumb when it is a feature to align the user experience for iOS users with mobile OSX users? Your opinion on this is what's really dumb! Mac Power users with large screen will likely have less to no use, but this wasn't made for such users.
You are being too generous. The vast majority of Windows 8/8.1 users can barely find an email attachment, much less even know what a "split screen" is or why they might need it.
In what email client?
I also hope this post doesn't incite rants. People should be able to have different ideas about how to improve an OS without calling each other idiots.
I work between Mac and Windows a lot and I have often thought that it would be a nice option to have the choice of the two variances you describe in OS X. If in an Apps's preferences you could select the default as now or to have the menu on the windows, would be nice to have. Working as I have for years on multiple massive screens there is a lot of mouse travel involved to get to top menus even with tracking on maximum as mine always is, your eyes and head still have to move.
"Split view... Welcome to Windows 8"
Welcome to IBM 3290 which could be split 2 or 4 ways.. of 30 YEARS ago.
Welcome to IBM 3290, from 30 YEARS ago!
Most Windows users tend to use apps that make sense side-by-side. Makes sense for them. Most of my apps require a good amount of horizontal real estate.
But I wonder if I'm the only one who has a problem with the initial "Desktop1 - Desktop2..." placeholders when opening mission control. Yosemite gives my previews of all my desktops immediately, which I find very helpful to quickly navigate desktops. Now I have to mouse up first to see the previews. Did I miss some configuration option to keep the old behaviour?