21 votes
Allow user to hide Twitter button.
Not all of us Twitter and it would be nice to hide the Twitter button on the Taglocity toolbar. This is important in a corporate environment, where it may be frowned upon to be Twittering on company time.
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We have renamed the Twitter button to Status and now give users the choice to update their 'status' to Twitter or Taglocity Groups (well in the next beta drop that is). This is part of the philosophy of improving communication without contributing to email or inbox overload. I wonder if hiding the button would really limit people using Twitter for personal purposes on company time? I mean, what would stop people from un-hiding the button, or simply using other tools for Twittering if they want to? Opinions?
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Dave - nothing would stop people unhiding the twitter button, but I don't think that's what we're really asking for here. It's more of a philosophical point - should you (Taglocity) mandate what we see or don't see on the toolbar or should we be able to change it to fit in with our working practices? After all Taglocity is surely about expanding on the limitations of Outlook, not introducing more limitations to how we work.
In my case, the Twitter/Status button is one I will never use at work and since it has been introduced, the Taglocity toolbar is now too long to fit in one line with one of the other toolbars in Outlook so I lose a toolbar's depth of useful real estate for no advantage. If I could hide the buttons I don't use (Twitter, search etc.) then I would be able to work the way I like rather than the way Taglocity thinks I should and be back to more screen real estate.
Tim
5 months ago
GRHurd
I'm sure it wouldn't stop people. My thought in making the suggestion is that people who *DO NOT* Twitter (tweet?) would not have to worry about a boss/coworker looking at their Inbox and seeing a big "Twitter" button. Status is probably innocuous enough to avoid any negative assumption, but provide the functionality to those who are Twitterers (tweeters?).
5 months ago