WinPLOSION test

Gp was "lucky" enough to test WinPLOSION soft for Windows (former WinExposé) which is supposed to duplicate exposé's function, under XP.

My configuration is a "good office work machine" (as it is its main purpose) : AMD XP 1800+, 512Mo RAM, GeForce4 MX440, Windows XP Pro. The installation of the 500Ko or so software lasts a few seconds, then all there's to do is configure keyboard shortcuts or screen corners, quite exactly like you'd do under Mac OS 10.3 Panther. Being done, my working environment won't be a very crowded one : some windows of Word®, Excel®, Outlook®, my management, my ICQ, etc. That's not much compared to what Exposé has to manage for me on my Mac. Well it happens to be… unusable! Sending the mouse to one corner of the screen to see all the windows creates a weird, psychedelic like effect, before every one, poorly animated by the way, reaches minimized status. Moreover, it seems the soft stores in cache the windows from the latest "Exposition", as if some come to be closed meanwhile, they'd still be seen when minimized (so illogical !). As a conclusion : I don't know if this comes from my configuration, or if a (really) more powerful graphical card would allow better results (as the wait time before the real "Exposition" thing is quite unpleasant), yet in its current state it is perfectly useless. The CPU gauge is stuck on 100% for a moment, which accounts for the difficulty to introduce low level Apple technologies (Quartz/OpenGL) to the Windows user level (no DirectX nor Direct3D for Windows XP GDI+ interface). This is really sad, as I wished every day I could have an Exposé function on PC, so I rejoiced to the idea I'd have one. The "Add/uninstall programs" panel was eventually merciless.