On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Zero3 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the review. > > Response: > - I didn't see any Vista UAC boxes this time either. You never replied > to my previous question about if you disabled it manually or not?
I don't recall disabling it, but its conceivable that I did. > - The "This program might not have uninstalled correctly" error is not > coming from the installer, but from the "Program Compatibility > Assistant" in Vista. Googling gives few results, but reveals that the > error is caused by more or less buggy Vista virtualization hacks > (http://news.jrsoftware.org/news/innosetup/msg58648.html indicates that > the error is probably harmless). I can't even reproduce it. If you can > reproduce, can you please tell me what te "What settings are applied?" > infotext says in that error box? I'll try to reproduce. > - The long delay before FireFox appeared is out of my hands, as the > launcher very quickly passes the ball on to whatever suitable browser it > finds. I could hack some kind of window detection code together in order > to show a progress bar while the browser is loading, but to be honest, > that isn't our job. If the user's browser is slow, it is kind of "their > own problem". You did get a "I'm thinking" cursor from Vista while you > were waiting, though. True, but I'm still quite sure that most users experiencing the kind of delay that I did would be very confused/frustrated by it. Couldn't we at least give some message - "launching web browser, please wait..." or something so that the user isn't left in limbo? > - The whole question of browser selection probably needs to be > discussed. Atm. the launcher will use whatever it finds first of the > following: FireFox, Opera, Chrome, Internet Explorer. You mentioned that > it launches fproxy in Firefox, and not your default browser (Chrome). > But wouldn't make sense to make the launcher try to find a browser that > *isn't* the default browser, as we recommend using another browser for > Freenet? True. > - I obviously cannot do anything about the installed node being slow to > connect to the network :). The installed seednodes file should be fairly > up to date. Yes, my later comments were more general, not specific to your installer. IMHO this kind of usability review, ideally by someone previously unfamiliar with Freenet, is critical to ensuring Freenet's adoption. I'd encourage people to get their friends to do this type of thing on a regular basis (not necessarily with a screencast, just watching them and taking notes is good enough). Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, Uprizer Labs Email: [email protected] Ph: +1 512 422 3588 Fax: +1 512 276 6674 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
