Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-23 Thread Chris January
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:45:07 -0400, ABCD en.a...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor wrote: Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going on now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Ford
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from showing up every time you run setup.exe? Should it only be asked on the very first installation (easy) or

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from showing up every time you run setup.exe? Should it only be asked on the very first installation (easy) or should there be a Don't

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Warren Young wrote: I suggest adding a tag to setup.hint whose value is an icon title, to be used by setup-1.7.exe only. When given, it requests that setup.exe offer to create an icon for that program. #1. WAY too simplistic. How does setup know the appropriate options that the target app

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:54:44PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from showing up every time you run setup.exe? Should it only be asked on the

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going on now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing something in the complicated setup code? That's fine if setup.exe only directly creates the cmd.exe based shell icons. It

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:31:04PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going on now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing something in the complicated setup code? That's fine if setup.exe

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread Warren Young
Charles Wilson wrote: I suggest adding a tag to setup.hint whose value is an icon title #1. WAY too simplistic. For some cases, sure. It suffices for many others, though, probably even most others. If you want to add more tags to the design, fine, but for v1.0, these other options

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor wrote: Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going on now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing something in the complicated setup code? - From what I've seen, the buttons are

Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from showing up every time you run setup.exe? Should it only be asked on the very first installation (easy) or should there be a Don't ask this question again

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-20 Thread Mikel Ward
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 22:36 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from showing up every time you run setup.exe? If the shortcuts exist already, don't ask, or default

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:42:06PM +1000, Mikel Ward wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 22:36 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from showing up every time you run

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-20 Thread Mikel Ward
If the shortcuts exist already, don't ask, or default to unchecked. If the user said no last time, default to unchecked. Most of the above don't seem like a change in behavior. Oh, I thought it defaulted to yes every time? At least in 1.5. Mikel

RE: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-20 Thread Karl M
20090921024801.ga4...@ednor.casa.cgf.cx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun=2C 20 Sep 2009 22:48:01 -0400 From: cgf Subject: Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page On Mon=2C Sep 21=2C 2009 at 12:42:06PM +1000