Re: Proposed Feature

> ------- Original Message -------
> From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> To: Naz Gassiep <naz(at)mira(dot)net>
> Sent: 23/06/07, 10:39:01
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Proposed Feature
>
> Naz Gassiep wrote:
> > Hey,
> > I'm sure that'd be greatly appreciated, most other major servers and
> > DBs have a similar feature, and that's what the systray is for, i.e.,
> > viewing major user-installed services.
>
> Don't forget that the tray (or taskbar notification area as it's
> supposed to be called) is one of the most abused areas of the windows
> GUI. I've seen installs where it takes up half the screen. So it's not
> *necessarily* a good thing - making it mandatory to have an easy way to
> turn it off. And if we don't add any actual *functionality*, it should
> absolutely not be enabled by default. Providing it as an option is never
> wrong, though.
>

I have no problem adding such a gizmo to the installer if it works well and has no onerous runtime requirements, but I wouldn't want it to be installed by default.

/D