My suggestion, Why not have a setup wizard that runs in the browser on first run. This is how nearly all php programs setup themselves such osCommerce and Kayako heldesk. It would be great to be able to guide users through some of the more difficult parts of installation such as port forwarding.
IMO port forwarding is one of the most difficult things to setup. Most users don't even know what it is let alone how to set it up. When I first tried out freenet I gave up and left it for a month before trying again. It was only after much bugging people on the IRC chat and reading through my huge 200 page manual for my ADSL router that I found out. Here in the UK nearly everyone I know uses an ADSL router to connect to the Internet. My experience with friends has been that installing the JVM is the easy part. It's port forwarding that is the road block. If I even mention it usually people just scratch their head. I think if freenet is to become easy to use then this is one of the biggest things to address rather than more eye candy for the fproxy. Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Clarke Sent: 18 September 2003 00:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [freenet-dev] Beautifying Freenet Hi All, While Matthew works on getting the bugs out of NGR, I want to get others thinking about how we can rid ourselves, once and for all, of the claim that Freenet is difficult to use and/or ugly. Some suggestions for discussion: * Migrate to a more powerful template engine such as FreeMarker (http://freemarker.sf.net/). I have been using FreeMarker on another project and it is indeed very powerful, but it would add almost 2MB to Freenet's size. * Redo FProxy but with our existing simple template engine * Eliminate the need for platform-specific config utilities by creating a configuration Infolet within FProxy Thoughts? Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Weblog http://slashdot.org/~sanity/journal _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
