On Wednesday 17 December 2008 09:29, Zero3 wrote: > Ian Clarke skrev: > >> On top of my head: > >> - Cleaner code > >> - Proper detection of FireFox location > >> - profiles.ini watchdog thingy > >> - Check if node is running before launching FF (and if not, start or > >> inform user in a GUI message box) (and if needed, shutdown node > >> afterwards as well) > >> - If wanted, GUI warnings about missing daemon, FF or FF profile (we > >> talked a bit about the possibility of nagging users without daemon enabled) > >> > > > > I also think we may have a problem getting the user past the "ok, its > > up and running, now what?" stage. We need to give the user a natural > > path from installation to usage of Freenet, whether its surfing > > FProxy, using one of the discussion tools, or creating their own > > freesites. > > > > Anyone got any ideas? > > > > Ian. > > > > Random thoughts: > > - Website does kind of well in leading the user from front page to > downloading the installer (could still be a lot more KISS in my opinion > though) > - Installer should (upon finishing) inform the user that they can/should > open the "Browse Freenet" shortcut on their desktop to start. Obviously > the shortcut should have a bunny icon.
You really think they will? Most desktops have hundreds of icons on them. Most systrays are hidden by XP. And XP hides the start menu too. It is work to find it, we need to get the user on board before they have to do that work. > - The first-time wizard is quite good, but could be made even more > newbie-friendly with more explanations and automation (there are a > couple of bugs regarding this already I think) If there is any way to improve it then file bugs. > - Perhaps a proper welcome screen as the very first/last page of the > wizard or as the main page of fproxy (either merge with the bookmarks or > make it possible to change "main page" to the bookmarks later on, when > the user is more experienced) We have one don't we? The more text we put on it the less likely the user will read any of it. > - All software using Freenet should probably have their own page in > fproxy (I know work is being done to make this possible) Sure. > > - Zero3 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081217/5513ed5d/attachment.pgp>
