None of these Launchpad editors are ever going to work unless they include SQL database editing. That's why they don't actually save settings. The successful one will be able to modify the database in ~/Library/Application Support/Dock.

I agree with everyone expressing thanks to the developer to bring back Spaces.

I also agree with some users, such as Shock-J, who point out that more features are needed so that this can be ready for prime-time and big-time on the Mac. The effects themselves may seem cosmetic, but the result would be an app that fits well into the user's overall desktop experience.

More integration is needed with Mission Control. Here are some things to aim for:

(1) A default transition into the grid that zooms back from the current desktop, as Mission Control does.

(2) An ability to override MC's default swipe transition between desktops, so that whether the user changes desktops from within the grid overview or MC overview, they can still get the same transition, such as cube.

(3) Along with #2, an ability to assign the same keyboard shortcuts to TS as to MC.

This one is one of my favorites. Far stabler and simpler in design than Fruit Menu.

And now it's open source.

Wow. So, Compiz finally makes it to Mac! I've looked at the video, and to me it looks just like Compiz. I've waited for this to come, but I always hoped the open-source community would merely PORT Compiz to Mac.

I'm still running 10.5, but planning to upgrade to 10.7 when it's out.

Some questions, then: Is this, in fact, a port of the open-source compiz-config?

Does anyone find bugs, including crashes, in this software? Compiz remains buggy in linux.

Is the confusing preferences GUI more intuitive in Mac than it is in compiz-config?

When are you gonna introduce the "cube?" THAT would be the killer! ;-)

Thanks... looking forward to trying this on 10.7.

I have 3.1.2 installed. When new versions of Neo and Ooo are released, I like to compare them side-by-side.

Neo office was my first Ooo-forked office suite, and it gave me a good intro to this family of apps. Once Ooo came out with a Mac-native fork, though, I switched over from Neo. Why? Speed, primarily. Neo has, for most of its release history, been slow to write to screen or to composite, slow to load, and overall has just felt clunky and resource-hungry. Ooo remains a far slimmer, more efficient fork, at least in look and feel.

There are some bugs in the latest stable release of Ooo that haven't existed in earliest versions. In particular, the "Insert comment" function--useful to professional writers and editors like me--is buggy. Because of the long hours I spend working with documents, I keep the zoom at 170% so that the text fills most of the screen on my 19-inch display. However, at this zoom level, I cannot refer to the text I am annotating; the horizontal scroll will not work if I have the cursor inside the comment box. My only options are to either decrease the zoom or place the cursor outside the comment box. Again this bug did NOT exist in previous versions of Ooo.

It also does not exist in Neo 3.1.2. I am a big fan of Ooo, but for now, despite its clunkiness, I'm going to give Neo 3.1.2 a good test-drive, waiting for Ooo 3.4 STABLE to be released. I do hope annotations--an essential tool for writers and editors--have been debugged by then.

I rate Neo a "3" on value and a "4" on overall stability... lower than I rate Ooo, overall. However, if Neo continues to improve in stability, and takes the Ooo fork well beyond its current features, I will then consider donating to the project and upgrading to Neo 3.2.

Is anyone having an issue where Lion Designer breaks the "Change Desktop Background" setting?

After I installed this app, that is what happened on my system. The desktop background became Andromeda.jpg -- the default desktop -- and I was no longer able to change the background.

I deleted deleted several different caches and preference files, both using OnyX and by manually, but these tries did not fix the problem.

I finally resorted to deleting the file /System/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg and replacing it by renaming the background I wanted to use as the "DefaultDesktop.jpg." This worked.

However, still no ability to change the background. The preference command is simply broken.

I'm not sure whether Lion Designer is the culprit, but it was the last app I installed before the breakage, and it was installed just before the breakage, too.

On 10.5.8, tried to install trial version of 1.2, but it won't open. Exception occurs. Here's the error:

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

Dyld Error Message:
unknown required load command 0x80000022

Would like to at least try the software, thanks.