On Thursday 11 December 2008 18:06, Zero3 wrote: > Matthew Toseland skrev: > > Zero3 is very keen that we should run from the start menu from the installing > > user, rather than installing a service. This has a number of advantages: > > - It will be possible to kill Freenet from Task Manager. Not being able to > > kill Freenet from Task Manager likely alienates a lot of users IMHO. > > - We would not need to provide a script to disable autostart: advanced users > > would just move it away from the start menu, and non-advanced users would > > just uninstall it (as they do now). > > - Fewer permissions problems, no dedicated Freenet user. > > - WHEN we have a tray icon, we can start it at the same time. > > > > There are however some disadvantages: > > - Marginally less uptime if there is a login screen and the user doesn't log > > in immediately. This may be disproportionately significant however in terms > > of performance in some cases: IF the user starts using Freenet immediately > > after logging in, the extra few seconds would have been rather helpful. > > - The user actually needs to log in. We can't just tell them to keep their > > computers on 24x7 to run Freenet if it doesn't start until they log in. This > > could perhaps be significant. > > - Less uptime when other users are using the computer. > > > > We can add the shortcut for all users, but the problem is that the node > will restart during user switch, which is indeed quite bad.
I don't see why that would be a problem, we don't restart on statup, we start on startup. > > I'm not sure of how many Windows users actually share computers and > switch users during runtime? Might be a few, or might be many. Tendency > is moving towards more computers (e.g. individual computers) though. > > - Zero3 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081211/d0e7be13/attachment.pgp>
