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by stalf 5453 days ago
No it isn't. Following up on your post, which is btw, great, I'd add Mission Control also breaks my use of Exposé.

On Snow Leopard, most of the time, I used only one space and, as I've been using it on a 13.3" MBP, my windows were always using most of the screen and I usually have more than one window of a given app open at the same time (Finder or Text Wrangler for example).

To see multiple app windows, my workflow was: 1. Swipe four fingers down (gesture for Exposé); 2. Select any window of any given app.

Now, I must use Mission Control: 1. Gesture for Mission Control; 2. Select the app; 3. Gesture for Exposé; 4. Select my window.

What used to take 2 steps, takes four.

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Why do you have to do that? I don’t understand. I invoke Mission Control and select any window of any app, just like before. Two steps, just like before.
Because windows are grouped into app bundles. In each bundle, windows are stacked on top of each other. Thus smaller hitboxes, obscured content, harder to select a particular window.
I guess I have fewer windows open? The hitboxes are huge for me and so far the tradeoff seems to be well worth it – at least for the way I use it.

It’s certainly a tradeoff but for me personally certainly the right one.