Alexander Hars wrote: > Quickstart is very useful, of course, but there is no need to display an > icon just to remind the user of the existence of the Quickstart feature. > Both Mozilla and MS Office have quicklaunch features - they never show > up as tray icons, though. What would happen if every service that is > running in the background added a tray icon?
I don't want *every* program to do that, just the programs that eat up a lot of memory and/or are not typical TSR programs (you wouldn't call an office program a typical TSR program, would you?). > Furthermore, I suggest checking the tray icons on a typical Windows > system to see what functionality they provide. Almost all tray icons > offer some explicit functionality (except for hardware-related icons). I agree, I also liked the old quickstarter menu. But obviously the developers/designers of this feature had a different opinion. > 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 think we have been there in this discussion several times, there's no point in repeating the same arguments over and over again. > 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. I didn't say that (at least IIRC), I only wanted to express that a lot of people and also *I for myself* see this as a mistake. But OTOH I also think that as long as the quickstarter feature is not removed completely we must have the tray icon to give the user means to switch if off and remove OOo from memory quite easily. There was not a single discussion, but several of them (what IMHO really indicates that the removal is 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! Sorry, but this is nonsense. I assume that you aren't a developer, at least not someone working on a project as big as OOo. Don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that I don't take you seriously if you discuss things from the users perspective (on the contrary!), but OTOH you should refrain from explaining the developers how they should do their work. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
