i want to discuss with you:
do we need tray icons in HFS 3?
currently tray icons are used for
1) have a quick access to HFS administration
2) have "background" view of downloads going on
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Contribute to this discussion, keep in mind your needs first, but also others'.
Usability is very important.
HFS administration in version 3 is web.
you "solve" this by making yourself a bookmark in the browser.
Anyway, let's think about usability. We have to provide the user a simple and quick way to
A) know HFS is running
B) access the administration (and maybe also the front-end).
C) close the program
A possible way is to have a tray icon, as it is in version 2.
When you click the tray icon, you get a menu with: administration, quit.
Anyway, tray icons are Windows only. HFS 3 is multiplatform. Having tray icons now is difficult, and must be done differently for every platform. Having a truly cross-platform solution would be much better.
At the moment HFS runs in a "text window" (also said "console", or "dos box").
A possibility is to use this window for A) and C).
Inside the Window there could be a message like "press A to access administration", so to cover point B).
Note: "administration" is just starting the browser on a specific address (web page).
I think we can just have no tray icons for the downloads.
When you want to see what's going on you will access administration.
HFS will provide access to this information for other software, so another software can make such tray icons if desired.