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Feature request #72: REQUEST: More "Show" options (such as icon AND initials, with customizable order)

Kind feature request
Product WinSwitch
When Created , updated
Status closed
Reporter Paul Santora
Tags no tags

Description

Would it be possible to allow each "Show" option to be selected and displayed in the menu bar? Specifically, I would like to be able to show both my user icon and my initals. Would it be possible to control the order as well?

If I understand the explanation of the "initials" feature correctly, it is created by taking the first letter of each word in the long format user name. Would it be possible to get this info from the "default" address book vcard instead?

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Thanks for submitting the requests Paul. Marking this one as ASSIGNED.

    These are really two issues, so can you file a separate request for the vcard feature? That way one of the features won't get lost. In the meantime I've changed the summary.

    See this article for some tips:

    https://wincent.dev/a/knowledge-base/archives/2004/11/how_to_file_a_g.php

  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

    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.

  4. Greg Hurrell

    Status changed:

    • From: new
    • To: closed
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