Sounds like a good idea. Anyone opposed to having the firefox installer in the kickoff?
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote: > 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 -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
