I just read this.
Are these problems noted accurate? Does the windows edition do these sort
of things (.exe expands to "temp", then install, installation actually goes
to "temp")?
Just curious as my installation is working find and the usage of the TEMP
environment variable "temp" directory is valid in expanding and installing.
I've got to remember to set my system to clean the directory from time to
time!
Randy Garrett
El Sobrante, CA USA (NorCAL)
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Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:19 PM
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Subject: [discuss] No Two Prompting FOR PATHS
OK i have finaly found how to send you the emails.
your webpages are needlessly wordy. hire an intern to review and forward
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to various departments. anyways thats not the point.
I just want to let you knwo that after having deployed alot of open office
clients, i recently downloaded 2.03 or whatever (latest release as of
2006-08-24). it asked me twice where to install it. I PERSONALLY BEING OF
SOUND KNOWLEDGE understand the first prompt to be the temporary directory
that the program will unzip -if you will- the installation files to. To a
lesser user, who only ever sees one path ( IF they can even MIRACLEOUSLY
DETERMINE what saving a file, a path, and directory structure, are...) would
be very confusing. You are forcing the users to understand what temporary
files from an exe extraction are. That is not somethig the user needs to or
wants to know. trust me. i even installed it to the wrong place and i read
everything, because it is confusing.
One path. The place you want da file/program to go. WTF why should the
default install be c:\documents and settings\username\localsettings\temp ?
that path is crazy i dont want to install software there! JUst assume that
no one, ok 99% of ALL windows users do not care if you polute your installer
files there. its bad "eddict" i guess.. but i would guess that no one cares
except for perhaps your team. why dont you jsut put a cleanup script in. im
not a programmer but damn thats pretty simplistic. It would be much better
for you to just add that option to the command line install. much much
better.
Ok theres some quality drunken QA for you.
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