Hi Elias, >>1) Krita for historical reasons is a part of KOffice. This might be >>the reason why Krita cannot be used successfully as a search >>term in the KDE 4 Windows Installer. >>2) The end user does not know which of the KDE packages are >>stable and which are not. As Andrius wrote that KOffice >>packages are not stable so I searched the unstable releases. >>(But as Percy now confirmed - this is >>not a good search strategy as the wanted package is not there.) >Perhaps extending search to 'lookup by application name' could solve the issue.
Is true, also I think the main issue here isn't the searching of the package name, but the availability of the packgages in self (or, as Gilles Caulier said: the maintenability of huge packages) >From my personal point of view: is hard to create *KDE* packages on windows, it should be easy, but even betwen xp, vista and 7 exists some factors that make it dificult (eg. permissions) Emerge is a great tool and aims to achieve to make more easy the life *for developers*, but I think is time to improve the windows user experience too. The windows installer paradigm is confusing users and even some get scary of using it, however the paradigm in self isn't bad, is just matters of enhance communication of what is aviable in each release and what is not. Also, some improvements in the UI would be welcome: maybe change the wizard style to something like a welcome dashboard or simply (as Jaroslaw suggested) improve searching ... and hidding the progress of installing => why the users have to see all the list of files during the instalation proccess? ;) Cheers, Percy On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 October 2010 14:58, Elias Aarnio <[email protected]> wrote: > > 08.10.2010 22:54, Percy Camilo Triveño Aucahuasi kirjoitti: > >> >I have now installed the latest unstable and 4.2.95 but I cannot see > >> >Krita included in either of these. > >> > >> Is true, currently I didn't find the krita package in the last version > >> of the installer (in fact there isn't any KOffice's package) > > Nice to have someone to confirm that I am not totally messed up ;-) > > > > I think this is one thing the project should think about. In this case I > > had the CTO of the school IT department of a city of 170 thousand > > habitants to search for it. He is a Linux native so he also knows his > > way around. > > > > In this case there was two bits of information that IMHO cannot be held > > as self evident: > > 1) Krita for historical reasons is a part of KOffice. This might be the > > reason why Krita cannot be used successfully as a search term in the KDE > > 4 Windows Installer. > > Perhaps extending search to 'lookup by application name' could solve the > issue. > > -- > regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > Kexi & KOffice (http://kexi-project.org, http://identi.ca/kexi, > http://koffice.org) > KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org) > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows >
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