I see that a recent nightly has removed the windows GUI tasktray app and 
replaced it with another app that can be used to launch the GUI.

Here's some questions/points:

1. What happens with security?  When the slimtray app started, it asked for the 
username and password, and when launching the browser it doesn't request the 
credentials.  If I just start the browser directly and enter the url, it also 
doesn't ask for the credentials.  If I enter my WAN IP addr to access my site, 
it does require the password.  Is that how it has always worked - that a local 
intranet machine doesn't require a password, but internet connections do 
require it?

2. Although the previous app had its problems, I find it much more useful that 
the current feature.  Is there going to be a warning that a new installation 
will replace the previous app?  If not, are there plans to provide an archive 
of the previous slimserver.exe app on the slimdevices website?  I notice that 
the previous app is still installed after I upgraded, so I just quit the 
current slimtray app and ran the slimserver.exe back up ;)  However, if I need 
to do a clean install, I'd like to get the slimserver.exe back.

3. All the current feature really provides is an icon to launch the default 
browser for the slimserver url.  I can achieve the same by putting an icon on 
the desktop/quicklaunch/etc.  Slimserver.exe only requires a single click to 
bring the app up, and the app dissapears from taskbar when minimised.  Slimtray 
requires a double click, takes longer to come up, and isn't hidden when 
minimised, so using this I prefer to close the window, but then have the longer 
startup and have to navigate back to where I was last browsing.  Also the 
default browser window has more clutter, with all the various browser toolbars, 
etc.

Phil

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