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Feature request #135: REQUEST: "Do not show again" checkbox should default to OFF

Kind feature request
Product WinSwitch
When Created , updated
Status closed
Reporter Greg Hurrell
Tags no tags

Description

From a user email:

"The warning when both WinSwitch and the standard Fast User Switching is active looks great (love the transparent dialog, etc.). However, I'd say that the "Do not show this information again" checkbox should be OFF by default. In other words: Keep warning the user if they put themselves in this state, unless they find that checkbox in your dialog and disable the warning themselves."

Mr reply:

Ok, I'll think about that. The reason I had it default to ON was that I was thinking "annoy the user as little as possible". I know that whenever I see any of those messages, I always, always, always check the box after reading it for the first time. But I also know that in all the software I've seen, they always default to having the box unchecked... So you're probably right.

I'll leave this bug report open for a while before making a decision, to give other people a chance to comment.

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Changing assignment to reflect my new email address.

    https://wincent.dev/a/news/archives/2006/05/change_of_email.php

  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: new
    • To: closed
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