Talk:Mission Control (macOS)

Yahoo! Widgets
Yahoo! Widgets have more in common with Apple's Dashboard than with Exposé. Removing reference Peteresch 20:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Why is Yahoo Widgets back on the See Also section? As stated above, it doesn't really involve Exposé. I'm removing it. --Talyian 11:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Other Notes on Keys
YearginSM 20:51, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Pressing and holding F9 (or side-squeezing on a Mighty Mouse) will bring up prompt the standard fly-out. Releasing the key will return the windows to their regular format. Works similarly to F12 for Dashboard. A single, quick key press brings it up until pressed again.
 * As most new Macs are coming with the Mighty Mouse, it might be relevant to include information to its role in Exposé.
 * Actually new macs now have the battery-munching Magic Mouse as standard —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.216.157 (talk) 13:11, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * How is calling it "battery-munching" relevant? Also I agree the magic mouse should be mentioned. 24.114.65.162 (talk) 13:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

List of "clones"
How is a list of Exposé clones spam? Did the publishers go in and make the edits themselves? An encyclopedia is not a web directory, but it's supposed to be informative. If you can't find an article elsewhere about it, why remove the list?--GunnarRene 11:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. Ask yourself one simple question: does a long list of "me too" links tell us anything about Expose?  The answer is no.  Stating that Expose has been cloned and linking (internally) to a couple of examples is enough. AlistairMcMillan 19:07, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Alistair is right on with this one. This article is here to tell us about Expose -- a specific feature of a specific operating system, not to provide advertising to third parties that aren't notable enough to merit their own Wikipedia articles.  If someone wants to group together "window management" articles like this one, Kompose, etc. together into a category, that's would improve the quality of the encyclopedia itself, which is what we should always be focused on.  Warrens 19:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Tangent: something I've had on my mental to-do list for a while, is to put together all the stubby pages like this into something like "Features of Mac OS X". AlistairMcMillan 20:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I disagree. The previous edits were far from "a repository of links" and contained much more relevant information than "Flip3d has some vague resemblance to Expose." And if you remove that then the remaining text is hardly worth it's own section. Also note that many other software pages on Wiki have sections mentioning or linking to alternative software, or they are linked under the 'See also' section. See: Photoshop, Napster, System Restore, Macintosh Finder 70.16.67.46 01:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Please tell me/us what you think the content I deleted told us about Expose/ As far as I can see the only thing we need to know is Expose has been cloned.  As it stands the article tells us that, we don't need an extensive list of clones.  Also the reason why this is different to the articles on Photoshop etc, is that those alternative can replace Photoshop.  None of the clones can be swapped out for Expose.  They are all implementations for other platforms.  The only reason they are being added repeatedly to this article is to advertise them.  Wikipedia is not a billboard.  AlistairMcMillan 01:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


 * To stop the madness, I've created a separate page covering the Exposé clones. Bert Racoon | Life is not a dream, it's a nightmare... 21:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * That page has been deleted and should've never existed. 24.114.65.162 (talk) 13:51, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Comparisons with Flip3d
However, Window's alt-tab feature existed as far back as Windows 98 and thus precedes both Flip 3D and Expose by many years.

It seems like this should make some mention of the command-tab that dates back to OS 9. That or drop the bit about windows 98 entirely, it has absolutely nothing to do with OS 10.5 or comparing it to Vista 75.6.2.158 02:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Exposé blob.png
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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:52, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

What is the blob? I have no idea, nor does it explain how to operate it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.216.157 (talk) 13:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Windows 7 Peek
This article should probably add the new "Peek" feature of Windows 7 to the Similar Applications section: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html RealmRPGer (talk) 17:07, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

The History of mission control is misleading
The current page starts with "Mission Control, formerly Exposé, is a feature of the OS X operating system. First previewed on June 23, 2003 ..". This seems wrong to me: Expose appeared in 2003. However, mission control only appeared in Mac OS X Lion, which was announced only in 2010. Furthermore, the "formely expose", seems to imply that Expose was simply renamed to Mission Control. This is also not true.

I think it would make more sense to Extract the parts about Expose into their own page, and write something like "Mission Control was introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 to replace Expose and Spaces". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.207.109.84 (talk) 19:05, 18 June 2014 (UTC)


 * This is complicated and I'm thinking about how to explain/fix this. My basic feeling is that Mission Control is a view that incorporated some aspects of Exposé and Spaces, while leaving some others to become almost unnamed (the 'view all windows of this application' feature, for instance). At the moment that feature is called App Exposé, but only in System Preferences, while typing Exposé into the search field takes me to mission control. My feeling is that having just one article is best, and to explain something like: "These features, now part of Mission Control, were once part of the Exposé system." Blythwood (talk) 20:13, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

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Generic term?
I landed on this article looking for the generic term for Exposé, which redirected me here. It is nice that Wikipedia has a dedicated article for Apple fans, but "show all windows as floating thumbnails" is not Apple-specific feature, and what Apple brands as "Mission Control" may evolve to be something that isn't the "show all windows as floating thumbnails" feature, so it would be nice for the benefit of society if there were a general term or article for this concept. Also I don't think a "list of clones" would run afoul of WP:NOTMIRROR because it would be very limited in scale? --Nidaana (talk) 11:12, 4 December 2023 (UTC)


 * A "list of clones" is not worthy of a page. Wikipedia is not a mirror and a list of "clones" contributes nothing. 24.114.65.162 (talk) 13:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)