Hi, I find that app switching works well, using activities, but only if I use the Alex voice, and probably the older voices would work too, but not at all well with the nuance voices. I have reported this to Apple.
Cheers Dave On 23 Apr 2014, at 14:52, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > I am using cmd-tab as well, and yes, the activity is for Mail alone. When I > tweeted about this, someone else said they are having the same problem under > Mavericks. I recently did a clean install, so there's little chance it is > something corrupt somewhere. > On Apr 23, 2014, at 2:18 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > >> Hello Alex, >> >> How are you switching between apps and does your Mail activity kick in when >> you switch to mail? >> >> I have a Mail activity with low verbosity and switching is immediate using >> Cmd-Tab. I have a MacBook Air 11-inches with 8 gb of RAM. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 23 Apr 2014, at 05:30, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Someone recently told me that low verbosity in Mail eliminates the >>> "disclosure triangle" and other annoying announcements. It does indeed, so >>> i set up an activity to set low verbosity in Mail. I tried activities a >>> couple years ago, but they caused switching to and from apps to go really >>> slow, as in at least five seconds from pressing cmd-tab to being able to >>> use the app. Since then we've had two OS updates, and I went from 2gb to >>> 8gb of ram, so i figured I'd be all set... Nope. It takes just as long >>> today as it did two years ago. Is there anything i can do to fix this >>> problem? Is this universal, or do only some people experience it? Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex Hall >>> mehg...@icloud.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
