\> Next I'm going to implement the "minimize to tray" feature and the Now that I think about it, you've put your finger on the most important missing feature right now that would make an order of magnitude difference in the number of nodes. Without auto-run, we'll almost never retain nodes after an initial tryout interest. Auto-running as a minimized tray icon by default was the key to success for the early file sharing networks. It wouldn't have been appropriate for v0.1.0 when stability wasn't a given yet, but now it's good and stable. This is a must-have feature for the next release so any users that come back to try the new version we hopefully retain this time. I think the most user friendly way of doing auto-run is putting an icon in the Startup folder. I see OpenOffice.org and a number of other things on my computer do it that way. The other way, creating a runas registry entry, is not easily visible or editable by users, I've never liked that much. I guess what we want is an auto-run option that's on by default, if the option is changed then it creates or deletes the startup icon. While it's tempting to do a Linux port, once we do it we have that extra work with every release from then on. I'd rather put it off a while longer. Auto-run might give us 300% more nodes while Linux might give us 3% more. Linux would help server farms, but actually we'd like to favour individual users. Someone reported that it works fine in WinE.
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