Pownce - Windows Client Needs Tweaking
Filed under: Internet — Malcolm Owen @ 3:52 pm
Pownce, Kevin Rose’s baby when he isn’t dealing with social news or internet television, has now been released to the general public to use. That’s apparently news to some people, because it’s been vaguely invite-only for a while, but now any Tom, Richard or Harry will be able to sign up for the service. For those that might not have heard about it, Pownce is similar to Twitter in terms of it being public announcements through… the intertubes….
That isn’t the point of the post.
My problem is with their damn Pownce client. They have built something via that Adobe AIR platform, which means it works on both my Mac and PC. How it works on the Mac is fine. It’s in the Dock and I keep it there all the time. Works pretty well. On the PC, however…
I expect the client to work similar to how Trillian, MSN, ICQ, or indeed any instant messaging client under the sun to work. There’s a Pownce icon in the system tray, sitting there doing nothing. I can click and right-click it, but it does zilch. If I minimise the Pownce client, it goes down to the Start bar like a normal minimised program would do. If I close it, however, the client shuts down, the system tray icon disappears, and I get the log-in page when I start the client up again.
If it was able to work from the system tray, much like most of what are down there already work, I’d be happier. Since there is no way to set how this works, I’m stuck with the problem whenever I am using my PC.
It infuriates me, that’s all…