Heya folks :) While visiting family over Christmas I did some testing of the KDE-on-Windows installer. I asked my brother (pretty average geeky Windows user) to install Amarok and Parley. Here are some of the things I noticed. (Some of them might be completely obvious to you - sorry.) Hope it helps.
* The download link on the website was hidden in the intro text. A link in the sidebar is needed. People don't read. * A standalone installer is needed. The whole concept of downloading the installer and then selecting which programs to install was not obvious at all especially when the goal is to "install Amarok". I fear anything else will make a lot of users not install certain KDE applications. Most of the users you will get in the future will want to install _one_ application which will hopefully make them also install others. * During installation one was asked which KDE version to download. It was absolutely not obvious which one is the best or recommended one. Maybe get rid of it completely or at least make a recommendation and make it obvious? Also are the old KDE versions really needed? Who is installing them? * All in all there are too many options to choose from but some of them could be removed with a standalone installer I suppose. Some people will just give up otherwise. * I need to improve the download page on the Amarok website. Fail :( Help appreciated. There seemed to have been a problem with localisation of XDG-user-dirs but my brother's computer is pretty messy so I can't say for sure where the problem was. And GetHotNewStuff wanted GPG which wasn't installed. I think it worked without it in the end. Damn I should take better notes... Besides those problems Amarok worked pretty nicely on Windows. Unfortunately we didn't get to actually use Parley because we ran out of time. Great work everyone! You surely are helping make KDE's world domination plans (TM) reality :P Maybe one day I can even make my brother a true Amarok fan and get him away from ITunes ;-) Cheers Lydia PS: Please CC me in replies as I am not subscribed to the list. -- Lydia Pintscher Amarok community manager kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org claimid.com/nightrose _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
