On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Kevin Krammer wrote:

On Tuesday, 2014-04-08, 10:30:11, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

The KDE installer distribution is kind of like cygwin and is so complicated
that it will never reach a large audience. People want to download Krita,
not KDE. And besides, because it contains all the stuff for all the kde
applications, it's big and complicated.

That is just an UI thing.
A Muon discover like interface that only lists applications would basically be
like an app store. Most people know how to work with those nowadays.

Which still won't work. People didn't install Intel AppUP, people won't install a KDE app store on windows to get an application. Users show an amazing amount of resistance to being asked to do A so they can get B, they want B directly.

 >
* make sure that no daemons run (because people with sensitive
firewalls will complain)

I am no expert on Windows but I am pretty sure only IP based sockets are
firewall territory.

Never seen a firewall complain about named pipes.

I'm not a windows expert either, I just report that I got reports...

Oh, and what I forgot: just having an extra process that may or may not be terminated after the application ends results in hours of user support work... Best not to risk it and keep things as simple as possible, especially if none of the daemons offer anything useful to the user.


Boud
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