On 24/04/06, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
On 24 Apr 2006, at 13:59 , Ben Fowler wrote:
On 24/04/06, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
Hi all,
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Could I underline that this is more than eye-candy: It is best practice to have a background image, showing that the way to install the application is to drag it to the folder of your choice. It is also advisable to somehow indicate where the application now is, to wit that the user will have to open the Applications folder (perhaps with Cmd-Shift-A) to see where they put it. ...
so you advise not to use the symlink to Apllications but rather to make the user open Applications (or anything else) and put inkscape there?
Well, I didn't mean to go into quite such a detail, but if you did want an opinion from me, I would be a little against it. (Does anybody else do this?).
Some people (most people) want to put apps in the System wide Applications folder, some people put apps in their ~/Applications folder - necessary if you do not have write permission to the System wide Applications folder, and some people plonk new apps onto their Desktop to try out, and then transfer to the proper place when they have checked them out.
I wouldn't expect a naive user to understand dropping an icon from part of a disk image to another.
The problem is making the instructions brief and multi-lingual. My guide is this page which has aged very well: http://www.g2meyer.com/usablehelp/dmggfx.html ,
I'll be unavailable for the next two months so I won't be able to produce Inkscape dev builds for the testing phase of the release, nor will I be able to package 0.44. I guess people will be available to do it. If this new packaging is ok to everybody and worth bothering, I'll modify the wiki to explain how to do it and somebody (Michael? Ted?) could take over the builds.
I think that they key to this is that there should be one person nominated to produced 'blessed' builds. FWIW, I have had to make a few modifications to the methods on the wiki, and I doubt that many people are producing Mac builds. This does not matter provided that one person can produce official builds - interested parties can download and test those.
I agree with you. I'll be happy to be the one to produce the "blessed" builds ;-) I just cannot do this for a while and I just need someone with a 10.4 machine to take over for two months (BTW, I mixed up the names and wrote Ted instead of Ben earlier. Even if you work on 10.3, do you have a 10.4 machine somewhere?).
Sure, if you can give brief instructions, on how to produce stripped builds, how to smoke test and how to upload, I will do this, but it is possible that there are people here who could do a better job, and I won't be offended to be relieved of this duty, if necessary!
Ben