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SwitchLists's web server window is excessively prominent #74

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
SwitchList's web server window is a bit annoying because it takes up a fair 
amount of screen space, and because it insists on always being above all other 
windows.  Consider other alternatives to the window - smaller, more 
controllable versions of the existing window, putting the web server status at 
the bottom of each window, or hiding web server status altogether.

Original issue from Gerard:

I have been wondering as to what the rationale is behind the fact that the 
web-server information window always stays on top of all other windows, 
especially since when I switch of the displaying of this window in the 
preference pane, the webserver stops.

REQUESTS:

Better control over the webserver and it's information window in "Preferences"
It would be nice to have 2 switches instead of one:
1. "Display Web Server control panel" - that actually does what it says, 
control the displaying of the panel
2. "Activate Web Server" - that controls the activation of the webserver, 
separate from wether it's info is displayed or not

Sticky-ness of webserver window
Perhaps a third switch in the Preferences pane:
3. "Make webserver panel sticky on top" - or not

Statistics displaying in webserver window?
As I'm writing this I'm thinking of still better use for the webserver window. 
Perhaps for future expansion, it could display statistic info about how many 
devices are connected, how often each page is being referenced, how many 
sessions we have had today, etc.
This could lead to another switch in Preferences:
4. "Display statistics in webserver panel"

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rwbowdi...@gmail.com on 21 Aug 2014 at 5:34