* Zero3 <zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> [2008-12-11 19:06:26]: > 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. >
You are not seriously suggesting that, are you? Won't that start two nodes? Won't that mess up the filesystem permissions? (say you logon admin first, logoff and then log back on again as user) > 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. > Ever used Vista for anything else but showing off? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081212/3f4541c7/attachment.pgp>
