Re: Proposed Feature

>-----Original Message-----
>From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of
>Magnus Hagander
>Sent: zaterdag 23 juni 2007 11:39
>To: Naz Gassiep
>Cc: Tony Caduto; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
>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 fully agree with the not part of the default installation. And make it
easy to turn the thing off.

In that respect it sound like a good feature for developer systems (not
servers per se). Just ensure for a small memory footprint, preferably
within a few 100 KB of memory. If you are going over 1 MB you are
seriously doing something wrong. (Obviously that might be acceptable
when I'm actively using it, but otherwise it should keep memory usage as
low as resonably possible).

Secondly it might be a good feature to let the user choose at
installation time to install postgres as a service and either start it
on boot (server) or have the user control when it should start
(developer system). In the latter case, such a tray icon might be a very
good feature (since it keeps my 1.5 GB of memory less occupied than
full, though postgresql is already quite a friendly program in this
respect).

- Joris