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I have not been able to find a way to turn off flip-3D without turning off
transparency in the Vista UI.
Flip-3D is cute-looking but slows down workflow for two reasons: a) any
animation takes time, and (mainly) b) the mouse cursor is does not land by
default on the last-used-window, as the old Alt-Tab does, and it requires a
considerably larger mouse movement to pick a window than to pick from a
pop-up list. My Logitech super-mouse (the MX Revolution) has a special
thumbwheel that activates the flip function. It is a <500 ms action to select
another window on a pick list with a mouse movement of 10mm or less. With
flip 3D the animation alone takes longer than that, besides the extra mousing
time and motion.
This is probably not objectionable unless, like me, you work with four or
five major apps (Photoshop, InDesign, Bridge, MS Word, Acrobat)
simultaneously and have to flip back and forth among them repetitively, many
times an hour.
I have no objection to the transparency, and it's useful enough that I would
keep it turned on, but the Flip-3D is so annoying that I have to turn off
Desktop Composition, which seems to eliminate both. (It took some searching
even to find the definition of "Desktop Composition", since it's not in the
included Help.) An option to retain one without the other would be welcome.
As a note, I realize I am probably in a minority. My preferred "user
experience" (I *hate* that term) has to do only with getting stuff done, not
how entertaining the UI is -- especially animations that take time with no
practical return.
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transparency in the Vista UI.
Flip-3D is cute-looking but slows down workflow for two reasons: a) any
animation takes time, and (mainly) b) the mouse cursor is does not land by
default on the last-used-window, as the old Alt-Tab does, and it requires a
considerably larger mouse movement to pick a window than to pick from a
pop-up list. My Logitech super-mouse (the MX Revolution) has a special
thumbwheel that activates the flip function. It is a <500 ms action to select
another window on a pick list with a mouse movement of 10mm or less. With
flip 3D the animation alone takes longer than that, besides the extra mousing
time and motion.
This is probably not objectionable unless, like me, you work with four or
five major apps (Photoshop, InDesign, Bridge, MS Word, Acrobat)
simultaneously and have to flip back and forth among them repetitively, many
times an hour.
I have no objection to the transparency, and it's useful enough that I would
keep it turned on, but the Flip-3D is so annoying that I have to turn off
Desktop Composition, which seems to eliminate both. (It took some searching
even to find the definition of "Desktop Composition", since it's not in the
included Help.) An option to retain one without the other would be welcome.
As a note, I realize I am probably in a minority. My preferred "user
experience" (I *hate* that term) has to do only with getting stuff done, not
how entertaining the UI is -- especially animations that take time with no
practical return.
----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...69f&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
