Dear All,
As some of you already know if you’ve been hanging out with us on IRC, we have switched our primary focus from “implementing new features quickly” to “working on the big picture and improving overall performance”.
One of the major changes we have been planning is merging the Linkinus and Linkinus Agent applications. This improves overall RAM consumption as well as CPU activity, and fixed a couple of bugs along the way (especially for those of you who’ve been trying to use Logitech Control Center lately).
The reason for this blog post is we’re not sure yet if we want to release this as a separate “lite” version of Linkinus, or simply provide it as an update to the regular version. This is where I need you, dear users! What would you prefer? Or rather, how many of you actually swear by that subtle detaching feature Linkinus currently enjoys?
Please feel free to drop me a line anytime to let me know.
- nl
PS: As all of you probably noticed, development is not as active and intense today as it once was. Not to worry; it is scheduled to be resumed to full speed in late August May when I actually get my life back.
Merging both would be nice. I don’t need that feature and I’d like to see it in the full version.
Agreed, merge them. I always get the feeling linkinus is bloated and unresponsive. Hopefully this would help.
I agree, one of the major issues with linkinus is that starting/resuming the application often results in a beachball.. If this helps alleviate the issue, I’m all for it.
I think the agent/application architecture is great. I had Linkinus crash a few (or a few more :P) times lately, and always stayed connected because of the agent still running.
But if merging them is the only way to reduce memory usage – I’m all for it, ’cause at the moment it’s *really* annoying sometimes, even moreso on a CD MBP, where I can’t have more than 2 gigs of RAM…
Not implementing *everything* and keeping focus sure is a good thing. Though I’d have to see what exactly you’d like to take away before I’d vote yes or no for a slimmer version.
All in all… I’m happy it’s moving again =).
) know what’s going on, everything’s great.
It doesn’t matter if it is happening fast or not, but just seeing it’s still alive and evolving is very good.
Take your time and don’t rush things, as long as we (I hope I’m allowed to speak for more people there
Jojo