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Originally posted by Islanti
There's one specific function ICBar has that made it superior to WisBar Advanced in my book. The ability to map functions to the connection icon!
When I insert my ethernet or wireless ethernet card using ICBar, I get a nice connection icon that I can then tap to get my IP settings (Cambridge's vxIPConfig) or tap'n'hold to open ActiveSync. Since I remote sync to my desktop at work via ethernet and my home PC via wireless, this is a big deal for me.
Unless I missed something, I'd have to add another entire icon for the same functionality in WisBar Advanced.
P.S. It's wonderful we all have the choice between two stable, free programs! Kudos to both authors.
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Correct... this is one of the points I mentioned, icbar can map two functions to any icon, even the time/date. That is why I gave it the advantage in function, along with hte tap-and-hold to close programs. I'm still not entirely sure which I'll end up using myself... But I'm going to keep both installed isnce they don't step on each other, If I could ocme up with a way of switching them on the fly, that might actually be pretty nifty (to be able to have different icons etc).
Another thing is that with Icbar, it is harder to coordinate skins, but not impossible, I actually used some of the standard Wisbar Advance skins by copying the folder, renaming the contents, then renaming each respective folder to "active", when I want to sue that skin. It's kludgy, but it works.
But yeah, it is nice to see all this active development, both of these programs are great in their own way, and I'm sure they'll only get better. They are also still quite small on the performance cut for the benefit they give, IMO (just barely noticable aboice the margin of variation in the benchmark app)