* Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-22 23:23:17]:

> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:48, Florent Daignière wrote:
> > * Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-22 16:11:22]:
> > 
> > > I remain concerned about our installation process for 0.8.  It is
> > > obviously critical that someone can get from visiting our website, to
> > > running and using Freenet, as easily as possible.
> > > 
> > 
> > Do you have anything specific in mind?
> > 
> > Atm we have the following panels:
> > - language selection panel
> > We can't get rid of that one short of having one installer per language
> > 
> > - Welcome panel
> > Getting rid of that one would be rude
> > 
> > - path selection panel
> > ditto
> > 
> > - pack selection panel
> > Someone (presumably you) suggested getting rid of that one: While we
> > can defer the plugin-selection to the wizard, we can't do it for the
> > "autostart" feature: the installer runs with privileges the node won't
> > have!
> 
> Fair point. :(
> > 
> > - copy panel
> > - processing panel
> > Agreed it would be cool to merge both... but that involves hacking
> > izPack and isn't trivial to do.
> > 
> > - shortcut creation panel
> > users like this one...
> 
> The browser is opened at the end now, right? So the user will actually see 
> the 
> shortcut creation panel?

Yes, the browser won't be opened before the installer has exited

> > 
> > - greetings panel
> > Same as for the welcome panel; we can't realistically exit without
> > saying anything.
> 
> We can because we open the wizard at the end in a browser.

IMHO that's counter-intuitive because the browser might take a few seconds
before showing up... but yeah, arguably we could.

NextGen$

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