Just FWIW (and an opportunity to be a bit iconoclastic), I have several users of one product I make for a client who just don't grasp the concept of a .DMG file. They get confused. They don't know what to do with it. They double-click it and then they think they've done something wrong.
Mounting virtiual disk drives is apparently a concept that is beyond at least some portion of the population. Thus Graham's original idea of just providing the app and a couple of folders, unstuffed, naked to the world, no .dmg wrapper, makes sense sometimes I think. And I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend Sweat Technologies' superb Rev-baked InstallGadget: http://www.sweattechnologies.com/InstallGadget/ On 4/13/06, Peter T. Evensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A large number of .dmg files that I have downloaded lately have two icons: > the app and a folder shortcut to the user's Applications folder, which a > background graphic (don't ask me how they do that.. I haven't looked into > it) directing them to drag the application to the Applications folder > shortcut, which makes it really easy to install, rather than opening > another window and navigating. > > At 10:11 AM 4/13/2006, you wrote: > >I want to distribute a structurally simple RR-developed application > >to Mac OSX users (it's the standalone itself and a couple of sample > >folders). In testing, all I've done is to copy the app (which we all > >know is really a folder) to somewhere convenient on the user's hard > >disk. The user then double-clicks and that's it. Is there anything > >wrong with this strategy? Why do people have installers and .dmg > >files if so? I sense that one reason might be that the machine > >potentially has many users, all but one of whom won't have > >administrator privileges - as I'm not in this situation myself, I > >don't really know. > > > >I want the simplest possible strategy for distribution. Any advice > >will be gratefully received, as ever. > > > >Graham > > Peter T. Evensen > http://www.PetersRoadToHealth.com > 314-629-5248 or 888-628-4588 > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
