Matthew Toseland skrev:
> On Friday 29 May 2009 15:04:21 Zero3 wrote:
>> Matthew Toseland skrev:
>>>> 3. Add a 'pause' feature. (131 votes)
>>> Now 140 votes.
>>>> Remarkably high ranking, I wonder what proportion of our users use online 
>>>> games?
>> I can fix a Windows helper to do this (in the same style as the other 
>> helpers in the wininstaller).
>>
>> Obviously this once again raises the question of whether this kind of 
>> stuff ought to be done cross-platform or platform specific.
>>
>> In any way - if nobody finds time to make a cross-platform solution in 
>> the next couple of months, I offer to make a Windows solution. This will 
>> require the actual "pause" feature done in Freenet itself first of 
>> course (unless you simply want to stop the node completely instead).
> 
> You are proposing to implement a system tray icon for Windows? We already 
> have one for Mac, so it may make sense simply to ship system specific tray 
> icons, to minimise overheads (maybe a few megs for a good native applet, and 
> it could start/stop Freenet as well as pausing it ...). One cross platform 
> applet is not going to happen, because until very recently Mac doesn't 
> support the java system tray API.
> 
> Now we just need somebody to implement a nice Linux system tray icon for 
> Freenet. Any takers? C for x86 would be fine, but Python or something similar 
> for wider support might be better?

On my to-do list.

- Zero3

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