Jean, from the brief period running ZA, there is an option, so not sure what's there to fix. Doubt ZA will flat out remove the default monitoring of local host traffic.

Do like the Exit or Stop BOINCmgr GUI. Many will not comprehend the significance of the 2 parts.

Sekerob, I remember having read something like that in one of your posts and I have spent a while this morning looking into all "options", "advanced", "customize", "expert rules" and alike items of ZA and I have not found a way to change the default behaviour.
When I have more time I might try their site and their forum as well.
I tend to think like you, until the day comes when one wants to close BoincMgr and stops Boinc completely or vice versa. I think that many of us have made such a mistake at least once, unless they have thought a little longer about the difference between both options.

Didactylos, that may be true from the developers perspective, but from an end user perspective the goal of the service option is to have Boinc running as soon as a boot is finished until the next shutdown, whether somebody is using the machine or not Given that, all the hidden complexity is only a by-product.

And talking about complexity, when you are asked without any preliminary warning to enter the password of I don't remember which user while you are installing as a service for the first time I am not sure that one thinks that the complexity is hidden.

And what about having to rely on ZA (for example) to forbid Boincscr from starting although you have said at install time that you do not want to use a screensaver at all.

I think it is always better to say or show things clearly and correctly rather than to rely on indirect effects of an option which is not meant primarily for those side effects.

Of course that's only my opinion and what I have learned by experience, and others may disagree and/or have had a different experience.

Brothers (crunching brothers that is )!!!
Crunching is a disease, a dependence on helping with your PC the world, to see your stats going up, to see first hand what the scientific community is working on.
Don't be afraid of the UD crunchers leaving!
THEY WILL COME BACK even if we crunch on BOINC version 1.0 again. It is they're (our) need to feel that we do some good in life, and crunching is a FUN way of doing good things in life. Even if you put back all the errors in Boinc or switch to a real crappy crunching manager , people will come back.
IT IS THEY'RE NATURE!

Prove me wrong.

I have only suggested one option, not to shutdown but only to stop BoincMgr which seems of no use while it is off the desktop. For the existing options I have only suggested to name them for what they are.

For that matter my understanding is that the Simple View is the right thing to use. The suggestions I have made are all for the Advanced View.

Regarding use of "ever" and "never" I am old enough to know that they are most often advantageously replaced by "when?".

That's all for me for the time being. Personally I have no serious problem with Boinc features right now.