Hi Phil,
On Jun 22, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Philip Meyer wrote:
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?
The security model hasn't changed at all. What password are you
talking about? If it's the one that you set up in server settings,
I'd guess that your browser cached 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.
The previous app was a (badly made) wrapper around an Internet
Explorer widget. It's been a real nightmare for our support team to
support and apart from a couple of menu options (some of which didn't
work), the functionality should be the same.
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.
Exactly right. It also lets you stop and start the service without
having to open the Services control panel. I expect that some folks
(including me) will exit the task tray icon and just use a shortcut
like you said.
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.
Single click brings up the menu, double click opens the window. You
can minimize the browser window and re-open it just as quickly as
before.
Also the default browser window has more clutter, with all the
various browser toolbars, etc.
That's true. Luckily, most browsers let you turn the various
toolbars off, so that's completely within your control.
Sorry that you don't like the changes. We're pretty pleased with
them here, I'd love to here more feedback from folks.
-dean
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