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I'm curious, why do you want the dock icon to show you what services are
running? Since the dock icon is a very small amount of real estate to
work with, I'd rather see it used to provide alerts or feedback about a
change of state in the app (like "you have a new message", or "the app
is in away mode"), rather then indicate that it is running as intended.
If the speculated use of the service dots is so that the user can watch
the dots to make sure the app is running as intended, there may be a
better solution. First, the app can already be set up to auto-reconnect
services (to make staying connected a transparent operation), but
secondly, perhaps launching a dialog/alert box if a service can't be
opened, then bounce the fire icon (if it's in the background) to alert
the user of the notification.
Personally, given the design comps, I would turn the Service-Dot feature
off because the Fire dock icon is already quite small at my resolution
and the service-dots would be way too small to provide useful feedback.
However, if I had to pick between the two comps, my vote is fot the
"allservices" version because it allows the dots to remain in a constant
location (so even though I can't see what they are I can identify them
spatially.)
One of the beauties of open-source code is that we can all adapt the
codebase to suit our needs, and I encourage everyone to do so.
However, if the changes are going to roll into the official source tree,
please make sure the design allows the features to be disabled without a
performance hit.
Just my $0.02,
-- Erik
On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 01:29 PM, David Remahl wrote:
> http://www.ittpoi.com/allservices.jpg
> http://www.ittpoi.com/onlyactive.jpg
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