Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >> Magnus Hagander >> Sent: zaterdag 23 juni 2007 11:39 >> To: Naz Gassiep >> Cc: Tony Caduto; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Proposed Feature >> >> Naz Gassiep wrote: >>> Hey, >>> I'm sure that'd be greatly appreciated, most other major servers >>> and DBs have a similar feature, and that's what the systray is for, >>> i.e., viewing major user-installed services. >> Don't forget that the tray (or taskbar notification area as >> it's supposed to be called) is one of the most abused areas of >> the windows GUI. I've seen installs where it takes up half the >> screen. So it's not >> *necessarily* a good thing - making it mandatory to have an >> easy way to turn it off. And if we don't add any actual >> *functionality*, it should absolutely not be enabled by >> default. Providing it as an option is never wrong, though. > > I fully agree with the not part of the default installation. And make it > easy to turn the thing off. > > In that respect it sound like a good feature for developer systems (not > servers per se). Just ensure for a small memory footprint, preferably > within a few 100 KB of memory. If you are going over 1 MB you are > seriously doing something wrong. (Obviously that might be acceptable > when I'm actively using it, but otherwise it should keep memory usage as > low as resonably possible). Good point. I could hack it up in C# in 15 minutes, and it'd be a 32Kb EXE file. But it'd use 15-20Mb RAM at least, making it completely unacceptable of course. So that's absolutely an important figure. //Magnus
