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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.)
I see your points, but believe that many users do want an indicator of
running services.
> 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.
Absolutely. The only performance hit as it is now, is the loading of the
appearance control panel which will contain an additional two checkboxes. I
haven't absolutely made sure there isn't a performance hit now compared to
the solution with the user status badge, but there will not be any when I'm
done anyway. The feature will also (like the num-users badge) be turned off
per default.
> Just my $0.02,
> -- Erik
/ Add my 2 to that.
// david
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