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Feature request #344: REQUEST: Preference pane for WinSwitch, or merge into "Accounts" pane

Kind feature request
Product WinSwitch
When Created , updated
Status closed
Reporter dibble
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Description

It would be great to have the Winswitch preferences show up in the preferences panel of os x, or possibly merge the winswitch preferences with the user accounts preferences pane under os x. I hope you take my request into consideration for your next release. Thanks for creating such a useful program!!

Kyle Dibble

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Thanks for submitting the feature request. Actually merging into the Accounts preference pane is probably a bit too "haxie" for my style and I wouldn't even know where to begin on that one. But making a separate preference pane is a definite possibility. If enough users request this I will add it, but first I'd like to gauge the level of support for it because I know that there are a lot of people who don't like adding too many preference panes to the System Preferences application (for reasons of clutter).

  2. Greg Hurrell

    Changing assignment to reflect my new email address.

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

  3. Greg Hurrell

    Status changed:

    • From: new
    • To: closed
  4. 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.

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