Playing "Hunt the dialog" in Leopard

The "Spaces" virtual desktop feature of Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard, is great - but far from perfect.

Have you ever played "hunt the dialog" ?

This game is played upon you when you use Spaces. Here's what happens:

An application, that is in a different Space than the one you are currently using, alerts you by bouncing in the dock. You click it, and are whisked away to the right space. However, the app looks kind of odd - you can't detect why immediately but it soon becomes clear that the app doesn't have focus. Somewhere else is a dialog, from this app, that should be on top, but is in a different Space.
Well, where is it?

If you are really unlucky it is behind another app in a different space - finding these really sucks.
If you are lucky it will be visible in another space. Usually, as soon as you click it, you automatically switch back to the correct Space (the one that the originating App is in) - and can then interact with it.

Spaces needs some polish.


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