On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:00:07AM +0100, panamerica334 at uni.de wrote: > >> Only negative comment about the installer is that it > >> seems to automatically put freenet in the startup > >> folder without prompting the user first. There should > >> definitely be a check box somewhere for doing that. > >> (If there is and I missed it, please let me know.) > > > >Why? If a user absolutely insists on not having freenet run on startup > >he can always remove it. The default is for a permanent node now. > > either there should be a checkbox like "start when windows starts" so the > user can configure the node startup settings (default the box to "yes") or > > add a comment at the finish-page, saying "your node is configured as a > permanent node. it will be started every time you start windows. if you would > like to > change this behaviour, please feel free to delete the "freenet" entry in your > autostart folder. you can start freenet manually by clicking the freenet icon > in the > freenet program group" > > both should not be too much to code..... > Ugh. Repeat after me: WE WILL NOT ENCOURAGE USERS TO RUN TRANSIENT NODES UNLESS THERE IS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE. They can always turn it off e.g. while gaming using the icon, can't they?
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