I think this discussion should probably be taken to the Development list at this point, with a decent game plan for everything formulated there.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
