3 Suggestions for Application icons

1. Keep application icons in the same spot after an update. It's annoying to have to move the icon back to its place after each update.
2. When moving icons around, allow for the scrolling of more than one window. Every time I have to drag the icon rightward to the next window then release it and do the same thing over and over and over again until its in the proper place. But this would be less of an issue if the first problem were fixed.
3. Allow for additional windows to the left of the main window (not just to the right). Navigating to the proper window would be so much easier if I could scroll 2 windows to the right OR 2 to the left instead of 4 to the right. And I guess I could fix this by moving all of my front window icons to the 3rd window and placing the other icons on the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th windows, but see suggestion #2.

As mentioned, update 2.1 fixes your first issue.
Your second, I don't have that problem. I can drag an icon to side, it flips to next screen, then DON'T let go, just move to left just a tad then back right (just need to have it register a move) and then it will flip again...no need to let go and pick up again. Just a slight finger move is needed and I can understand why.
Last, would be a nice update, but as suggested, this is a user to user forum, not a place for feedback. Can suggest at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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Hello all
I am seeking opinions on how to design an application in which multiple classes have access to a common set of configuration properties that may change at runtime.
Until now, I would create an abstract class dedicated to initializing the properties set and enabling access to them from anywhere in the application through appropriate get/set static methods (most probably using an internal java.util.Properties object). Lately, my confidence in that approach seems to diminish.
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G

909773 wrote:
For example a 24x7 service that is supposed to handle requests on port X is very unlikely to need to change to port Y while running.
Or what happens if you have a plugin architecture and someone changes the root plugin directory to another directory.On the other hand, the maximum draw distance in a virtual world, an application's "skin", or a filesharing client's bandwidth limit are, in my view, properties that may very well need to change at runtime.
Seems reasonable to me. That is the easy part. The hard part is
1. How/when do you reload
2. How do you code your app so it gets the new values and uses themAs for 1, apologies if I haven't explained correctly: I am talking about properties that may change programmatically at runtime, e.g., by a user through a configuration dialog. Ok.
I can think of at least one way to deal with 2 (classes interested in all or a few of the properties implement some property listener interface and accordingly re-get values when notified about changes).That is how you detect it. It has nothing to do with whether the current running process is in a state that allows changes to be made.
all over the code reflects a wise design decision vs using a singleton property manager, references to a single property manager object (maybe even a java.util.Properties object) passed around through constructors, approaches involving dependency injection (not relying on any framework though), or else.Depends on the application. For example with a distributed system propogating the changes correctly so systems are not out of sync can be problematic.
Depends on the context in which your user makes changes. If it is an admin then it has the same context has if you were using a file. In that case I would use a singleton.
If it is a user changing part of the system, then you can't use a singleton. In that case you would need a context object from which other code derives the configuration values it uses. That is a one layer hierarchy and of course more levels require more complexity via a context object for each level.

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TokyoTony wrote:
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[SOLVED] Set icons for applications in XFCE

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Hi,
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> > Does anyone know how to distribute a Application Icon Title for a
desktop
> > shortcut with the %username% variable? So my icon might be a link to
> > email with the Application Icon Title of "Joe's Email".
>
> AFAIK you can't use variables/macros in the "Application icon title"
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>
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>
>
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