Am 11.10.2010 01:00, schrieb Percy Camilo Triveño Aucahuasi: > 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? ;) Do you think about something like the single package installer approach like available at http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/setup/stable/
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