Missing desktop icons and installation

[drago01]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 11:35:52 +0100,
>  drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now that we no longer display desktop icons by default it is not
>> obvious on how to install the operating system,
>> as there is no longer a "Install to Hardisk" icon on the desktop. So
>> the live cd does no longer promote any install option.
>>
>> I am wondering on why nobody noticed that till now and the obvious
>> question is what should we do?
>
> I noticed that there wasn't a desktop icon for it weeks ago, but it does
> show up as an application you can run. If that isn't good enough, then maybe
> sticking it in with the favorites on live images would be a way to make it
> more obvious. That won't work for fallback mode though. For that you'd
> probably want to add it to the panel.

Well installing an OS isn't an application in the classical sense; and
even I didn't expect it there,
so I doubt many users would. The icon on the desktop was more or less
directly discoverable that told you that
you can install from the live cd at all.