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DGG

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Message 5403 - Posted 21 Sep 2009 15:32:06 UTC

Docking@Home is my favorite project. To a large extent that was due to it's screen saver and short work units.

To be honest, the new scrolling news ticker added to the screen saver is useless and frankly ruins the look of the rotating image. It never has any news anyway. It just basically says that its for news updates. Why add a news ticker if you don't update it frequently with news? And in all likeliness if the project is down, you're not going to be able to update anything in this ticker anyway. It frankly ruins the apperance of the rotating image.

Please make an option to slect or unselect it from the settings menu. This way those who want it can have it and those that don't can keep the appearance of the screen saver like it was. If you can't add an option for it in the settings I vote to remove it.

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Profile Trilce Estrada
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Message 5491 - Posted 28 Oct 2009 0:21:04 UTC - in response to Message ID 5403 .

Thanks a lot for your comment, I'll send your suggestion to our graphics developer. It's always important to provide features that are good for our users

Regards

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