Install Fedora Button for LiveCD

[Chris Murphy]

On Apr 19, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Camilo Mesias wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> No, it is not. I've said so the first time, and I have not changed my
>> opinion. Make it a notification.
> 
> All this discussion is obscuring the original problem. Although a
> notification is easy, if it is dismissed, it fails as a method to
> start an install. So it's inferior to a dedicated button.
> Also, I think the use cases are inaccurate... Install would normally
> be only after seeing that the basic desktop / networking /
> suspend-resume was working properly. So I see several use cases: use
> livecd for some activity; use for testing followed by install; and
> more rarely, install immediately. A notification or popup at login
> time is only really a good fit for the immediate install use case.

In effect it may necessitate a reboot to get that notification back, in order to know how to install? That's user hostile, in my book. The notification would be nice, although perhaps superfluous, in addition to the button. But it's inadequate in lieu of the button.


Chris Murphy