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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
