On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 04:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > What's the proper way to detect the presence of Freenet on Windows?
>
> the only way to properly detect the presence of Freenet on _any_ OS is to ask
> the user for FCP host address and port.
Sad to have to do that, because it detracts seriously from
user-friendliness.
At even the slightest mention of a 'port', most windows users' eyes
glaze over - they think 'this is too technical', and they give up and
forget about the software.
Like, hello, this is the real world - 80% of PC users don't even know
what a 'port' is, and don't want to know.
Maybe I could take this approach
- if prog can do fcp handshake on port 8481
- freenet is found
- else
- browse 'network neighbourhood' to get hostnames of
other boxen in lan
- if prog does successful FCP handshake with one of those other boxen
on the LAN
- freenet is found
- if freenet is found
- confirm details with user
- else
- offer to download/install it
Thoughts?
David
_______________________________________________
Devl mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
