Drag Reduction - Spaces & Window Layering in 10.5.3

Spaces & Window Layering in 10.5.3

According to Apple’s release notes,

[This update] resolves an issue in which switching to a different space and returning back to the original space may reorder the application windows with a different active window.

But no, it doesn’t. Starting with two empty spaces, try this:

Launch iTunes in space 1. iTunes is now active (“has the focus”) in space 1.
Switch to space 2. With no open windows, Finder becomes active in space 2.
Switch back to space 1. Guess who still has the focus, even with no open windows in space 1? (A: Finder.)

Now try this:

Go back to space 1 and launch Safari.
Open another Safari window (now you have two in space 1) and move one of them to space 2 (via whichever of the various ways of doing this is your favorite).
Go back to space 1 and make iTunes active.
Switch to space 2 — Safari takes the focus, because there are no iTunes windows in space 2.
Switch back to space 1 — guess who still has the focus? (A: Safari.) Guess who is now covering up your iTunes window? (A: Safari again.) Guess who didn’t fix the window-ordering bug? (A: Apple.)

And I was so hoping, too.

This post resolves an issue in which claiming to have fixed something but not actually fixing it makes the author very grumpy.

Actually, no, it doesn’t.

PS Submitted to Radar back in February, 5743904 and 5744015. Closed as duplicates shortly thereafter.