On Thursday, January 31, 2013 08:24:45 PM Rohan Garg wrote: > > In this case, you still get rekonq if there's no network during install. > > Yep, the same way you get a Kubuntu without multimedia codecs without a > network. > > I don't see any significant advantage for doing it during the install > > versus making it easy to do post-install. Why do you think it's better? > > I'm open to suggestions on how to make it super easy for users to > install another browser post-install. Especially since users migrating > from Windows/OS X have no concept of 'packages' and even installing > something like firefox can be daunting task. Personally, I'd expect > them to go to firefox.com and download the sources instead of > downloading the binary packages since that's what they're accustomed > to.
How about putting the Firefox installer in the 'favorites' so that if someone can at least click on the K menu they'll see the familiar icon and (hopefully) click on it? > > Also, if we start having application selection during install, what else > > ends up there? It's a slippery slope. > > True. As always there are tradeoffs to be made here. But if you have a > look around, people seem to be comfortable with dragon as their video > player as compared to rekonq as their default browser ( just an > example ). There was a time where Kaffeine versus Dragon was just as controversial. Scott K -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
