I agree with not making the menu bigger than needed.  Simply swapping open
gateway and
view log file would be fine.


And as far as Dave's suggestion, next time I will use the bug tracker unless
something better
comes up (suggestion submission form on website maybe?).

Eric Thacker.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Spaeth" <[email protected]>
To: <devl at freenetproject.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Just an idea


> Eric Thacker wrote:
>
> > In the freenet system tray icon, I think the command "Open Gateway"
should
> > be moved away from the command "Stop Freenet" by adding another
> > horizontal bar underneath "Open Gateway".
> >
> > The reason for this is that I keep stopping my node instead of opening a
> > web browser.
>
> But I don't want to introduce too many dividers in that menu to make it
> larger than needs to be. Would it be OK, if I simply moved the Open
> Gateway to the top and the view logfile below the first separator? That
> would be no problem for me.
>
> Hint: I never ever use that menu entry, double-clicking the sys tray
> icon is *much* faster IMHO.
>
> > Also, if possible, I think that an idiot window should come up asking if
> > someone is reall sure they want to stop their node.  Kinda like the "Are
you really sure
> > you want to delete your files...   Ok, now are you really, really sure
you wanna delete?"
> > prompts that windows gives you.
>
> But stopping the node will not kill any files, it will simply, errr,
> stop the node. And you get a graphical feedback that the node is
> stopped. Are were you talking about the "complete unistall" of Freenet?
> The only negative impact of stopping a node which could justify such a
> message is that currently transferred files would be lost. I'll think
> whether it's possible to have a "Do you really want to stop the node?"
> together with a "never show me this dialog box again" checkbox.
>
> > The main reason is to keep people (like me) who have IDI (input device
> > impairment) syndrome from stopping a node by accident.
>
> I will gladly iprove things whereever I can, keep on suggesting and
> bugging me about these issues. I probably just don't experience these
> small things the same way as you do as I am not IDI'ed (besides not
> being able to type orthographically correctly :-)).
> Doesn't double clicking the tray icon work for you?
>
> Sebastian
>
>
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