Making Spaces Useful

The concept of Spaces is a good one, but the execution is poor. Am I missing something, or is it possible to actually work in Spaces with the screen split into 2, 4, 6, whatever pieces in real time. I like to be able to see all my open applications and drag material between them. In effect, I'd like Spaces to be able to Tile applications across the screen, yet have them each be in their own workspace. When I saw the promo for Spaces in Leopard last year, this is how I envisioned it working. Obviously I misread the signals. It is handy to have the full screen for n-number of applications, but totally unhandy to have to key back and forth between and among them. What, if anything, am I missing? With a 30" cinema monitor, it certainly seems a waste of screen real-estate to create Spaces so that every application occupies full (or near full) screen in each space.

I have multiple applications tied to each "Space" and know how to navigate between them. That isn't my issue. What I want is to have the F8 view actually be a working view so that I can working within each "Space" while the other spaces remain on the screen. The "F8" view gives each space its own dock and menubar and I want to be able to have control of the spaces simultanously - tiled, as it were, without having to individually resize every application to fit exactly in 1/4 of the screen real estate (I have 4 spaces). With a 30" Cinema monitor, it is really a waste of real estate to keep flipping through the Spaces with each Space occupying an entire 30" screen. That was NOT my original understanding of how spaces would work. I understood it to work more like virtual windows in X11 under Linux where it is possible to have multiple virtual screens occupy one real screen. As it stands now, Spaces is a solution in search of a problem, IMO.

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