I've been thinking that our current arrangement of a close and an eject button isn't exactly ideal. Eject won't work for local installs. And some people are looking for a minimize button. So I was thinking that what if we set up the two buttons in the lower right to be customizable between a close, eject and a minimize and let users select how they work. I think setting them as Minimize and Eject by default for removable drives and Minimize and Close by default for running from C:\ would make sense as well. And then folks that don't want it ejecting on their removable could set it to Minimize and Close. Thoughts?
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In my opinion, if people who want it can get it, and people that don't want it, can remove it, and it won't be a real big issue, then it sounds pretty good. (that goes with most other things as well ;))
if you could have it change the button images to correlate to the function that it's set to, that would be good.
I'm assuming that Minimize is being requested by those that have RemainVisible=True?
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Fantastic idea John! Way better than me trying to disable "eject" and breaking something by accident.
Minimize is an awesome suggestion, so that it's not all system-tray concentric.
The only question is how to make this possible (i.e. right click, ini modification, options menu, etc.).
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Right click is a little too dangerous, if you click the wrong button you potentially close the platform or eject your drive. And while .ini modification is valid, it would not be much harder to do via the Options menu.
I think the Options -> Advanced tab is going to need to be split into two tabs with all the talk of more options coming...
Another possibility is a single button with a submenu, very similar to Windows' Standby/Hibernate/Shut down/log off button. The options that I can think of which would be applicable for us are Minimize, Close, Eject, Restart and when there is a Platform update available "Update and restart". The user could then select what the default action is, and click on the dropdown portion to make the other options available. I believe users will tend to use either Eject or Close all the time, though it is by no means guaranteed, but the retention of the other options makes the other options still available.
What do others think of this notion?
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Sounds like a great idea, Chris.
This would hopefully allow a little more platform real estate for the disk quota bar, which gets quite full on a 1000GB+ drive, unless John wants to modify it so anything four digits plus in gigabytes is listed in terabytes.
Definitely a good idea.
very well thought-out variant
It could very well end up a double edged blade. Putting it all onto one button with a submenu is good, but the question is whether it will be a list menu or a window with three buttons (think the shutdown menu)...
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I like the idea of a submenu, but how difficult would it be to implement? Would it be a blank button or change according to what was last selected?
+1 for Submenu
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After figuring out a "dirty" way to disable the eject button that works... I propose just having one button, with settings located under Options/Advanced, to eject or close the platform. IMHO simplicity is usually better -and probably much easier to code ;). Kudos on the 10.1 release, and as always, my sincerest thanks.