Apple did something clever with how stacked windows in the strip are cycled. When clicking on a stack of windows in the strip, Stage Manager prioritizes keeping the outgoing window on top of the stack. Assuming you have window A on the stage, and windows B, C, D are in the stack in that order. […]
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Apple giveth and Apple taketh away. In macOS 13 developer beta 3, I was elated to see that Apple had named Stage Manager’s dingus on the left a “strip”. Imagine my surprise and disappointment to find that name erased and replaced with “Recent Apps”. I have a few quibbles with this change. First of all, […]
John Gruber recently took umbrage with Wirecutter’s pick for best laptop. Here’s what he wrote: My longstanding complaint about The Wirecutter is that they institutionally fetishize price over quality. That makes it all the more baffling that their recommended “Best Laptop” — not best Windows laptop, but best laptop, full stop — is a Dell […]
I thought it might be a good idea to keep a running lexicon for Stage Manager now that Apple has seemingly named one of its components. As of macOS 13 beta 3, what I’ve been referring to as a “wing”, Apple now calls a “strip”. stage – a main area of a screen strip – […]
Absent of a formal name from Apple, I have been referring to Stage Manager’s dingus on the left as a “wing“. If macOS 13 beta 3 is to be trusted, this dingus is called a “strip“. I still like “wing” better, but a name is still way better than no name.
When I spitballed a lexicon for Stage Manager, I hadn’t yet actually played with the feature. One would think not having actually used a feature would prevent someone from giving feedback. That said, here’s what I suggested regarding Stage Manager specific command+tab and command+` behavior: Stage Manager introduces a hierarchy that I hope Apple leans […]
I decided to use “wing” instead of “deck” as my name for the Stage Manager’s dingus on the left. Here’s what I wrote in the update to that post: Update: The consensus feedback I got is that “wing” is a better name for the dingus on the left than “deck” because “wing” works with Apple’s […]