I visited Eric‘s work office (a horde grad/post-grad students stuffed into a mid-sized room, filled to the brim with several dozen computers, most apparently non-functional) the other day and noticed that he was using a pretty nice virtual desktop package. In the past, I’ve never been big user of virtual desktops, having seen the dual-monitored light back in 1999. However, with my Powerbook, things have really gotten out of hand. While the Codetek package looks nice, by chance, I came across a very nice GPL’d virtual desktop package called Desktop Manager. While not as completely fully featured, it’s still really great, and the transition effects rock! (I’m currently using Cube; all the ones that are built into Panther are available).
The only things that I’d like to be able to do is to have some control over which windows open where, a way to switch to specific desktops automatically when switching over to an app (w/ all windows on one screen), and possibly a way to although task switch between apps on a desktop.