okay. then can we have the best of both worlds. If you right click the icon,
you have a context menu where you can select to either display the startup icon
or not. If not, it could be turned back on through the OOo options.
Rigel
Chris BONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a number of things running in the background. At times I would like to
stop
them. Why have things running when you might not use them for some time?
I deleted the QuickStart. It did not start that much faster than ordinarily. I
generally
have enough time to do a couple of things while programs are starting up. Heck,
I
pay just about CA$19.month for 300hr dialup. Lots of time there.
So, being able to choose what is running, to me is an advantage.
Chris
> I am in agreement with the vote that says that if the starter isn't
> serving an interactive purpose then there is no reason to have it
> registered in the system tray or otherwise. It can run as a TSR or a
> DLL service without being displayed on the system tray.
>
> Windows services run in the background all all the time. Have you seen
> all the "processes" running under windows XP? Dozens! That means they
> must have developed some simple code to insert into the component
> somewhere... Hmm.
>
> Rigel
>
> Mathias Bauer wrote:
> Anton Danilov wrote:
>
> > That's quite reasonable, but then there must be an option to hide
> > the icon (while running the software in the background), because
> > useless or undesired icons can be quite annoying.
>
> But then how can you unload the application if you haven't any icon
> available?
>
> So I assume that you just want to hide it temporarily and have some
> means to show it again when you need ist. Then you should use a clever
> desktop that does that for you (like the Win XP desktop), because
> that's the place where such things should be handled. There's no point
> in implementing this for a single application.
>
> Best regards,
> Mathias
>
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