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Wish I could say the same. Unfortunately, after half a day trying it out, I had to go back to version 2. Several problems in my WM2003SE Toshiba e830:
- one icon (I'm still not sure which, but it seemed to happen to a couple by turns) was always turning into a blank white square, which would only go away if I closed WisBar then re-launched it
- response of WisBar 3 to taps was on average about 50% slower than in WisBar 2
- couldn't find the option to tap anywhere in the blank part of the bar to launch Start Menu... but perhaps I just missed the checkbox somewhere?
- very complicated configuration, or so it seemed, compared to WisBar 2
- couldn't find the option to hide name of top application
- icon for one program or another would vanish, making it seem to be closed, but then on tapping to re-launch I'd find the application already running - this was odd, considering that several other running program icons would be visible, just not certain ones
The most difficult to deal with was the slowness. I have to keep WisBar 2 trimmed down quite a lot to keep it stable, so no global nor even selective program skinning for me, no Favorites nor Documents in the cascading menus or I'll suffer lockups. The older version runs okay, more or less. It seems to cause the odd problem with the input panel selector and launcher vanishing, but perhaps this is caused by something else... hard to be sure, buy easily corrected anyway by toggling screen rotation or fullscreen in one application or another to refresh the lower bar. I was really hoping for a snappier performance out of WisBar for a long time, but it seems not fated to happen.
Just for fun, I tried WisBar Lite today after uninstalling WisBar 3. While going through the reduced settings config I must have tapped something I shouldn't have, because my Toshiba went into a soft reset without my trying to do so. It wouldn't stop, either, and no matter how many times I tried, there was no way to get it to finish a reset. And yes, I have SafeMode 2 installed, and no, it didn't work. I think that the last thing I checked in WisBar Lite was the option to load on reset... which I always use for WisBar 2, and it only makes sense to have it this way. After 10 minutes of fighting with it I gave up and hard reset the device, restoring from the Sprite backup file I'd made just before trying these two versions. All back to normal now. I'll putter along with version 2 and try not to sulk about how memories of GigaBar still make me homesick. That program just rocked, plain and simple, allowed me to fully customise everything about it and do about 5 times as many things as does WisBar. Oh well, seems Gene Knight is long gone from the scene, along with GigaBar compatibility for anything after WM2002.
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