Mathias, 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?
You would actually know what was running on your computer in the background.
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). 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).
See for the rationale <http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30853>.
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!
Search under horrendous v2 changes or something like that.
There have been about 3 different long threads about this issue. And read the issue.
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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