----- Original Message ----- From: "Mathew Ryden" <[email protected]> To: <devl at freenetproject.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Something to research for 0.5.2...
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Simon Porter" <hailstormxp at fairadsl.co.uk> > > > > Good to hear that the splitfile user interface is going to be > > overhauled. Just another two things regarding usability. I don't know if > > these ideas are in progress or have just been forgotten about. > > > > The first was to make it more clear via the system tray what the status > > of the node is. i.e. adding in something to let the user know it is > > initialising or loading. It was also suggested that something other than > > red be used for the icon as this usually signifies that something is > > wrong or has gone wrong. > > I have no feelings on the coloring of hops, other than he's always been red > ;) How about having it alternate (blink) with a hourglass icon during loading, and a question mark after 5/10 minutes if still no fproxy? > > Getting the tray icon to behave properly has not been fun and currently > sitting on the backburner until after 0.5.1 is released (no real reason for > this except I don't want to do it yet). Now would be a good time to state > that I hate windows programming. Sockets are refusing to load and I don't > want to require IE to be installed to run the systray app. I'll mess around > with it when I get time to see if I can magically get it to compile, and if > so, probably release it with 0.5.1, otherwise it will stay on the > backburner. When you get around to it of course... ;) > > > The second was the idea of having the node switch automatically from > > transient to permanent is the node has been running for longer than x > > hours. I like the sounds of this because there may be heavy users > > running their computer almost 24hrs a day yet too lazy. Of course you > > would have to add in an option to disable this. Perhaps have an > > automatic mode as default and allow users to set it to manual if need > > be. > > I think that this is part of the ARK overhaul. I'm not certain though. > *looks at Matthew* > > > Lastly I would be interested to know how developers are tracking feature > > requests like the above. Would you find a web based tracking system > > useful at all on the new website? It'll probably use php. If you have > > any suggestions I'd love to hear them. > > > > Simon > > -Mathew > > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
