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Feature request #582: REQUEST: Exclude certain users (admins, test accounts) from WinSwitch menu

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

This request came up in the forums:

https://wincent.dev/a/support/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1230

"I administrate machines shared by several users, and I'd like to exclude my admin and testing user accounts from the switching menu."

I think the simplest user interface for this kind of thing would be a table view containing a list of users with checkboxes next to their names. You could then exclude or include specific users.

This UI would most likely tie in with request #166 (for assigning hotkeys to specific accounts), because that feature would need a table view as well.

I can think of additional features that would go well with this one, such as making the WinSwitch preferences themselves accessible only to admin users (although this would have to be optional).

Comments

  1. 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.

  2. Greg Hurrell

    Status changed:

    • From: new
    • To: closed
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