Trying not to jump on the sarcasm train... It seems reasonable to me that:
1) Most people turn their home computers off when not in use, either to save power or reduce noise at night. Those who have SlimServer running 24x7 are not typical home computer users, and SlimDevices should not expect all users to behave like this. 2) If someone turns something off, they anticipate that it will, at the very least, stop flashing messages at them, unless they've specifically configured it to display, for example, a clock when it's in "off" (standby) mode. So, aside from the fact that the original poster misdiagnosed the problem with a healthy dose of paranoia, that doesn't change the fact that this does not seem to be a good behavior. In my opinion, SlimDevices COULD do something to improve this. If the user has opted for a blank screensaver for "off" mode, then I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume they don't want the thing to display messages at them when it's off. So it shouldn't. When the user turns the thing on, and there's a server connectivity problem, THEN it displays the message--because it's on and the user expects to see messages displayed when it's on. Seems like a reasonable approach to me. In the meantime, turning the brightness way down for off mode seems the best short-term solution. But it does seem to be a bad design choice, in my opinion. -- CatBus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31652 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
