On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 20:42 +0100, Alexander Hars wrote:
> A tray icon that does nothing will disappoint many users (and will be
> easily noticed by reviewers). It is not appropriate from a UI
> perspective. Why not just eliminate it? (To emphasize this again:I am
> not advocating to eliminate the quickstart feature, only the visual
> icon).
I strongly disagree!
I think that under all circumstances the user should be made
aware of the fact that a very large program is loaded into
memory. We are talking about dozens of Megabytes.
While this might not be that important if you've got 1GB of
RAM, people with less memory might just notice their computers
slowing down if they open a large program unrelated to OOo,
and never find out why.
> The better option, of course, would be to add the launch menu back to
> the tray icon. I was not able to find the discussion you mentioned, but
> you say the decision to eliminate them was now recognized as a mistake.
> Why not put the launch menu back in? A developer should not need more
> than ten minutes to do that - it's just a menu!
I agree though, that the menu is useful and I think it should be
readded. But the icon by itself is important too.
/ralph
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