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Re: adding a startup application is not average user friendly

 

Den 03. mars 2012 02:27, skrev Andrew Starr-Bochicchio:
Adding a startup application is not something an average user would
want to do. Applications that have a reason to start with the session
should add themselves to that list. The "average user" task is to
enable or disable a start up application.

I completely disagree with that. For instance, you might want to have IM available at all times. Or your email client, or web feed reader. Yes, it would be better if applications added themselves, but in any case, you would never want to auto-start a video-file at startup. This is no doubt a bug. When you want to add an application, only applications should be shown, not the recently used media files.

Setting an application to start automatically is something anyone and almost everyone should want to do.

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Jo-Erlend Schinstad



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