On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:30, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-07-22 23:23:17]: > > > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:48, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > > * Ian Clarke <ian.clarke at gmail.com> [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.
Or we could just have the last panel tell the user to wait for the browser to open. > > NextGen$ > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080722/14609dea/attachment.pgp>
