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> I still don't get why everyone is so pissed off about fullscreen

1. because it's garbage

2. because applications which used to have a working fullscreen mode — such as firefox — and get converted to the Lion API result in no gain and lots of pain

> So why don't you just not use fullscreen mode, and continue doing everything you've been doing with dual monitors since the days of OS X 10.0 ?

Like use fullscreen mode on Firefox, which has been there forever? Oh wait, now I can't. Just as I can't use fullscreen mode on, say, Quicktime X. Or have movies display on the big screen. I didn't really want them on the 27" anyway, the 15" is so much better isn't it? Pulls you closer to the screen, unless you don't care for the picture.

> You lose nothing, and gain nothing, so it makes absolutely 0 difference in your workflow.

Yes actually: Firefox still had a fullscreen mode which actually worked correctly. Now it does not, unless there is some sort of hidden setting able to toggle back to the "old" API as there is in VLC.




I'm going to try and counter this:

>2. because applications which used to have a working fullscreen mode — such as firefox — and get converted to the Lion API result in no gain and lots of pain

As a Macbook Pro user, I've been looking forward to Firefox's implementation for a while. Applications that take advantage of Lion's fullscreen API allow me to easily swipe between multiple apps with the trackpad, which make using a laptop significantly nicer without needing to use an external mouse.

It is essentially broken for people who have multiple displays and Apple sucks because of it. But it's not broken for everyone and provides significant functionality for a lot of people.


FWIW, Mountain Lion will fix this and comes out in about a week.

It doesn't fix the fact that you're left with one (or more) useless displays in full screen mode, but it does let you choose which display to do the full screening on.


Unless I have missed an article stating otherwise, there is a lot of noise about it not being fixed in Mountain Lion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235432


The problem that remains in Mountain Lion is that you can only use 1 display at a time when in full-screen mode.

It's better than Lion in that you will be able to choose which of your displays is used to go into full-screen mode, rather than always just using the 'main' display.

Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested in Mountain Lion, but this is the only consistent explanation I've been able to gather from careful reading of people's complaints and Apple's description of the feature change.




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