Lydia Pintscher schrieb: > 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. > See http://windows.kde.org - the website got some update > * 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. > There is an initial implementation of specialized installers targeted to one application/package available with a reduced ui - probably need some polishing > * 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? > I think we must differentiate between an end user and a power user. For end users it is only importent so select between the latest stable or unstable release. > * 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... > I don't know any application named GetHotNewStuff - are your refering to khotnewstuff4 ? > Besides those problems Amarok worked pretty nicely on Windows. > nice to hear. > Unfortunately we didn't get to actually use Parley because we ran out > of time. Two of my childrens are using parley for their daily vocable learning - there are some minor issues and sometime it crashes > 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 ;-) > Regards Ralf
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