On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 17:51, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Please keep unstalling/uninstalling out of menus.
We intend to. Currently we use the .desktop specs Actions part to do
uninstall/upgrade etc, unfortunately no desktop supports it yet. At some
point I'll sit down and hack out support for Gnome if nobody else does,
I expect somebody is up for doing it in KDE. Right clicking on a menu
item has piss poor discoverability of course. I'm warming to Seths
application manager program a bit.
We don't need no windowish in-your-face uninstall solutions, we
don't
need popup eulas
This is getting rather offtopic, but the "makeinstaller" utility prints
warnings if you use the EULA functionality (not fully implemented yet)..
, change-install-location dialogs,
Don't have one, if you want to change the prefix you have to use the
command line...
here-is-the-disc-size-I-need-please-check windows,
... automatic
you-think-I'm-installed-but-check-my-20-pages-readme popups,
... not done
don't-bother-with-permissions-and-run-everything-as-admin
... can choose (user vs root)
(I case people wonder - I've just documented the installation of
an app
that used a custom installer clearly written by a brainwashed
monopolysoft user. Just documenting this single installation took as
many pages as the ones devoted to updating the whole multi-hundred rpm
system)
We're aiming for a 100% automatic install. User interaction is possible
but treated very carefully.
Anyway I don't know why I bother - just do your thing and
I'll watch HiG
people shot it down.
You do that. Just remember that most of us have read the HIG and taken
it to heart.
Sure - why use a single consistent working solution when you can let
everyone reinvent incompatible wheels ?
There would be a consistant working solution, but so far I've not been
able to come up with one that I feel integrates nicely. We'll prolly end
up doing an "app manager" (which BTW should really be standards based),
but even so this is kind of hackish IMHO - for the user the model is
that the launcher IS the application, so integrating app management with
the launcher feels like the right way to do things.
thanks -mike