You will see it with Firefox. Evan, what happens if you open the app on the DMG a second time, any warning then?
-Colin On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios <j...@macports.org> wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: > >> >> On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Zachary West wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 21:50, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <eva...@dreskin.net> >>> wrote: >>> In Adium 1.3.10 and prior, we had this nifty installation helper which >>> showed up if you ran Adium from the disk image: >>> >>> >>> It's gone in 1.4. Why? >>> >>> -Evan >>> >>> The OS already prompts users that they are running from a disk image. An >>> additional prompt from Adium seems irritating. >> >> I don't see such a prompt in 10.6.4; I do see the rather unhelpful message: >> <PastedGraphic-2.png> >> which also appears if I copy it to the Applications folder and launch it. >> >> What message do you get when launching from a disk image? >> >> -Evan > > > I've seen the warning that Zac refers to from certain applications, > like the latest Stuffit Expander (who even tells you it can move itself to > the /Applications dir), but I'm almost certain that doesn't come from the OS. > As far as I know, the only thing the OS does is what you point out, Evan, > which is accomplished trough an extended attribute that Safari imparts on > every file it downloads (if I'm not mistaken, you can test that by > downloading a file from Firefox and opening it, I'm almost certain you're not > going to see the warning in that case). > > My two cents, > > > - jmpp >
