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Bug #490: Add preference to suppress rotating cube animation when switching users

Kind bug
Product WinSwitch
When Created , updated
Status closed
Reporter jon wherhol
Tags no tags

Description

It would be great if this program added a preference to turn off or eliminate the rotating cube animation and transition that happens when fast user switching.

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Thanks for submitting the feature request. I don't know how one would go about overriding the behaviour of the system in that respect. Would probably require quite some hackery. If anyone has any suggestions on on how this would be done please add them here.

  2. Greg Hurrell

    I'm marking all WinSwitch issues closed seeing as I personally no longer use it, and in fact haven't for around 4 years now.

    WinSwitch addressed a real problem with the initial implementation of Fast User Switching in Panther (released October 2003), namely, the excessive screen real estate that it chewed up. Apple fixed that problem in Tiger, if I recall correctly, which came out in April 2005 (or if I'm wrong about it being Tiger, then it was definitely fixed by the time Leopard came out, in October 2007).

    With this change, most of the justification for WinSwitch's existence went away, at least for me. So that's why I'm going to close all these tickets: I can't really support something that I don't use myself.

    But it's open source, so if any one wants to tackle any of these issues and submit patches, I'll be happy to accept them.

  3. Greg Hurrell

    Status changed:

    • From: open
    • To: closed
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