[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] Installer changes for Windows users

2011-03-15 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jared, all, I'll try to structure this mail a bit better, so people don't have to read the entire thread in order to learn to know who wants and proposes what... [... and I remove one or another part ...] Jared wrote: [...] Christoph Noack wrote: [...] Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011,

Re: [libreoffice-design] Installer changes for Windows users

2011-03-13 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Hi Christoph, and thank you for your detailed reply. Appreciated. On 12/03/2011 13:57, Christoph Noack wrote: Since I think that the initial contact (installation plus first start) is a very important thing for users - because it needs to be as hazzle free as possible. So, how about to look at

Re: [libreoffice-design] Installer changes for Windows users

2011-03-12 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Cesare, hi Shawn! Hey, cool that you started this thread ... indeed, installing stuff on Windows is not as user friendly as it could be. Am Samstag, den 12.03.2011, 10:29 +0100 schrieb Cesare Leonardi: On 12/03/2011 00:16, Shawn Thompson wrote: On the topic of this, I had actually proposed

[libreoffice-design] Installer changes for Windows users

2011-03-11 Thread Jared Meidal
As this is my first post here I'd like to introduce myself as someone who is not a coder, but one who sees a lot of exciting potential in this LibreOffice project. I hope this application suite can globally serve users across many platforms, interfaces and requirements. I use OpenSUSE and

Re: [libreoffice-design] Installer changes for Windows users

2011-03-11 Thread Cesare Leonardi
Hi all. I'm just a user too, that follows the LibreOffice project with many hopes and that try to contribute with bug filing and comments. On 11/03/2011 16:17, Jared Meidal wrote: When the first step to installing LibreOffice is the prompt to ask where to extract the install folder immediate

Re: [libreoffice-design] Installer changes for Windows users

2011-03-11 Thread Shawn Thompson
On the topic of this, I had actually proposed an entire redesign of the installer system in a much earlier post, but in discussions on IRC I was informed that making alternate UI's for Windows Installer systems is a pretty difficult task. ~Shawn On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Cesare Leonardi

Re: [libreoffice-design] Installer changes for Windows users

2011-03-11 Thread Jared Meidal
Another Windows related issue would be adding Win7 capabilities. Currently I cannot group LibreOffice apps in the task bar by an app that is reviously pinned. For example I can pin Writer to the task bar, but when opening it, or a new doc, it appears separately on the task bar. --Jared In