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Enhanced Windows Service manager application
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Meaningful icons #9

Closed himselfv closed 5 years ago

himselfv commented 8 years ago

Original report by me.

Icons can be used to provide meaningful information, such as, whether the service is running, if it's configured to auto-start or disabled, if it's a driver or a win32 service.

himselfv commented 5 years ago

Icons do show whether it's a driver or a win32 service at the time. Icons for triggers also reflect their type.

Running/not running is not done though. Have to think whether this makes sense. Running and auto-start/disabled is currently visualized by colors/background colors/font weight. Showing this with the icon might make some sense for people who prefer to disable coloring, but it's less noticeable. And the icon might look cramped.

Okay, let's summarize:

  1. All services currently have the same icon. It would be nice to use it to differentiate them somehow.
  2. We can only differentiate by one aspect. Multiple would be too cramped.
  3. We shouldn't make the aspect selectable, it's too complicated.
  4. Ideally this should be an aspect that "categorizes" services somehow (like with services/drivers, or with types of triggers).
  5. If people want icons for other aspects (running/stopped, start mode) we can show icons in those columns and let them reorder columns. This achieves the same much better.
himselfv commented 5 years ago

After some thought, since it's unclear how to categorize services further, I'm closing this for now.