On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Feb 26, 2009, at 09:18:40, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > >> It's worth considering integrating the uninstall as part of the > >> pref pane, perhaps as an Uninstall button that forks an uninstall > >> script or something similar. … > > > > … That uninstallation script should just go away, I wonder if we > > could have a built-in uninstall app instead. > > One problem is that the prefpane is still loaded in System Preferences > after the user uninstalls it. So the prefpane is still loaded, still > visible, and now broken (clicking on stuff will probably throw > exceptions). > > Much better to have the uninstaller in a separate app. > > We might consider using a script inside an Installer package for the > uninstaller. Then remote uninstallation is as easy as remote > installation. Ya, I was thinking a button to copy the uninstaller app out/launch it from wherever it's stored. Hit the button to uninstall, it quits sys prefs, and then cleans up everything and moves it all to the trash. That way it's not "hidden" in an application somewhere that users don't know to look. Just a random thought though. > > > > Do we need to go with multiple pkg's in an mpkg, or something else? > > I was thinking a pkg for each extra, docs (if we get beyond just > > internet docs) and growl itself, and then a wrapper mkpg. > > It is possible for the pkgs to live outside the mpkg—that's how Mac OS > X's installer works. I just don't know whether it's possible to set it > up in PackageMaker. I'd have to look. > That won't work with the internet enabled dmg in parallel though, as far as I know. You need to either have a folder like was suggested earlier, or a single file in the disk image for it to work (outside of a background image) > > Rather than having docs on the dmg, we might make it a help book and > install it to ~/Library/Help. Then it's accessible through the > standard Help Viewer menu, and through Help Viewer URLs. We can put > buttons in the prefpane and GrowlMail to get to it from those places. > > That'd be great --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
