Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
Regular users don't need this window. Therefor I wrote a little
AppleScript witch disables the black window and I though that this was
something that a lot of other Mac-users could use too!
Therefor I suggest that the dmg download of OpenOffice.org 2.0 includes
this little app of mine witch disables the black window. It's just a
little something that you'll have to run once and that's it.
The AppleScript is as simple as the one you see below, but could be a
really useful tool to include in the download for a better user
experience for first time users.
do shell script "perl -p -e 's/xterm &/# xterm &/'
/private/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc > ~/.xinitrc"
This could be compiled to a little app.
You're right, the xterm window might be annoying, but potentially
overwriting an existing .xinitrc in the user's home must be avoided.
Additionally, you must tell the user what you're doing and providing a
way to revert it - doing automatic changes to the system will definitely
trigger discussions. As it was the case for the automatic font
conversion that people don't like.
Another little thing that could really improve the whole OpenOffice
experience for Mac users would be to include the NeoLight Spotlight
indexer (
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/spotlight/neolightneoofficespotlightimporter.html
) with the download.
This makes sense, but only if it can be put into CVS in order to have it
automatically packed whenever an installation set is built. Everything
that has to be manually packed will definitely get lost over time. So
license issues have to be checked first.
The last improvement suggestion would be to compress and wrap up the
whole dmg a little neater and have some instructions there too. A
suggestion below.
http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/70/ooosuggestion2cp.png
This looks very professional, but brings up another important issue that
is not fixed yet: string localization for the Mac launch application and
custom packaging process. How did the strings find their way into your
image ? The OOo localization process must be used here - hard coded
strings in some scripts are not an option.
Stephan
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