A new feature has arrived on my desktop that prevents Nicki and I both using Suitcase at the same time. Until now, Suitcase ran happily in the background, managing font conflicts and opening fonts when required to do so. Great. Nice application. Problem solved.
Except now, I’m told by the support desk that to use the “fast user switching” facility in Mac OS X I need to quit Suitcase before I “fast switch” between users and relaunch it after the new user is logged in. This kinda reduces the functionality of a fast switch. If they insist on this stupid behaviour, the least they could do would be to put a “quit on fast user switch” checkbox in the preferences.
It really pisses me off, I buy software like a good boy and register and license it like I’m supposed to and then wham, upgrades mean less functionality:-(
So am off to find an alternative to Suitcase…
Comments (2)
Thanks :-)
I still haven't heard back from Extensis re how I can fix this. Their tech support guy said _this is a bug that will be adressed in a new version_ and suggested I go back a version.
The only problem is that the installer for that version doesn't exist anymore:-(
Most of the utilities I've looked at do the activating but not the ATM-a-like stuff of being able to look at font families in a nice way. So for the time being it looks like I'm stuck. If you do find something useful, please let me know.
Cheers,
Dug
Posted by Dug | October 22, 2004 11:00 PM
Posted on October 22, 2004 23:00
I feel your pain. I wish Extensis would have given a warning about this in their update. Since they didn't I screamed and ranted on versiontracker. Let me know if you find an alternative, I haven't had any luck.
Posted by tconlon | October 22, 2004 9:00 PM
Posted on October 22, 2004 21:00