SpaceSuit... Customize Spaces with a different desktop picture for each Space.
With SpaceSuit, you can set your background images via a simple drag-and-drop. And changing the display settings is as easy. SpaceSuit's minimalist interface is contained in its dock icon: all its options can be accessed from the icon menu.
SpaceSuit also uses Leopard's Core Animation. Everytime you change an image, resize it or modify your display settings, SpaceSuit adjusts your desktop with a smooth animation.
With SpaceSuit, you can set your background images via a simple drag-and-drop. And changing the display settings is as easy. SpaceSuit's minimalist interface is contained in its dock icon: all its options can be accessed from the icon menu.
SpaceSuit also uses Leopard's Core Animation. Everytime you change an image, resize it or modify your display settings, SpaceSuit adjusts your desktop with a smooth animation.
What's New
Version 1.1:
- Assign a name to each Space
- Change Space from SpaceSuit Dock menu using the Space name
- New menu option lets you change the current space name and background color for images that don't cover the full screen
- Growl notifications on Space changes
- Sparkle support
- Fixed French translation
- Images now default to Fit to Screen
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
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SpaceSuit... Customize Spaces with a different desktop picture for each Space.
With SpaceSuit, you can set your background images via a simple drag-and-drop. And changing the display settings is as easy. SpaceSuit's minimalist interface is contained in its dock icon: all its options can be accessed from the icon menu.
SpaceSuit also uses Leopard's Core Animation. Everytime you change an image, resize it or modify your display settings, SpaceSuit adjusts your desktop with a smooth animation.
With SpaceSuit, you can set your background images via a simple drag-and-drop. And changing the display settings is as easy. SpaceSuit's minimalist interface is contained in its dock icon: all its options can be accessed from the icon menu.
SpaceSuit also uses Leopard's Core Animation. Everytime you change an image, resize it or modify your display settings, SpaceSuit adjusts your desktop with a smooth animation.
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I have the one space with all finder windows.
so I have no way to add pictures to the other spaces and I don't want to change the way I have spaces setup.
maybe a preference like Hyperspaces to add the images, but without all the Hyperspace junk.
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I also agree that the following would be welcome additions/changes:
-SpaceSuit as preference pane
-menu bar updates to match background of whatever space
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JetFireDX reviewed on 02 Dec 2008
YouControlDesktop seems to be a bit lighter on the resources. With both Spaces + SpaceSuit and YouControl Desktops configured for 4 desktops in a single row using the same images, SpaceSuit is using 4 threads and about 38megs of real memory while YouControl Desktops is running 3 with about 8megs of real memory in use. (YCD may increase with time, I just restarted it after testing SpaceSuit for a while...I haven't watched it closely for any memory leaks.)
With SpaceSuit I am seeing none of the graphic glitches/artifacts that are present with YouControl Desktops after switching around. This is a nice and pleasant bonus since areas of the screen not redrawing properly makes me wonder about what YCD may be doing to achieve its effects.
So far a great tool and like the other comments, I agree that this functionality should have been part of Spaces to begin with. Thank you for releasing this. It is a great (and FREE) alternative to YouControl Desktops and HyperSpaces for multiple background functionality.
A check could be added for similar images but I think most people will use SpaceSuit to set different images on each Space.
+5
Just to give some technical details for those interested in the memory consumption. A 1280x800 image takes 4MB. So 4 images is 16MB. SpaceSuit uses Core Animation that creates an internal rendering tree where -I think- the images get duplicated.
That's 32MB and can be more if the images are larger than 1280x800.
Since YCD is using only 8MB for 4 images, I guess it might be loading the images on-the-fly.
If many people are concerned by memory usage, I'll add an option in a future release to disable Core Animation rendering.
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Jeffrey-Harris reviewed on 01 Dec 2008
I'd prefer to see SpaceSuit as a Preference Pane, to keep the Dock free of one more icon. It's a bit awkward to change desktop pictures they way it works now.
Also, it would be nice to be able to randomly change desktop pictures for each space, with the ability to assign a different Picture folder for each Space. I'd like to assign a different style desktop picture depending on how I use each Space.
For those who care about such things, the icon is excellent!
Very nice for a 1.0 release.
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Dana Sutton reviewed on 01 Dec 2008
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I don't know which mechanism Camouflage uses to detect wallpaper updates but you should try to contact the developer to see if he wants to make his software compatible with SpaceSuit (I can provide the technical information required for that).
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Everything is back to normal. I will try it again when an update comes out. Other than near bricking my imac it works great. The concept is good but it still needs help.
We know that one of our users had issues with the last OS X security update but we didn't get more details to identify the cause.
Would you by any chance have some crash logs that could help us identify the problem and fix it.
Thanks.
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--------------------------------------------------- rated on 25 Jul 2011