That may be true - but many people would be overjoyed if an app would
offer to install itself into an appropriate place. Sometimes people
are cluttered because they don't have someone to help. If an app
offered to help - just once - I don't see that as an intrusion, but a
more Mac-like feature. Its not intrusive.
On Feb 21, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Ben,
With all due respect, it's not your job to organize your users'
virtual desktop, any more than it is to organize their real desktop,
both of which may be cluttered. Some people put everything in its
place, others leave stuff lying around, that's just a fact of life.
In time, novice users will learn (or not ever, whatever). Since
you're moving to zip distribution, there's no need to worry anymore
about the app running from a mounted disk image.
When my mother visits me, she wants to clean my place. Don't be like
that. ;-) Write new features, fix bugs, ignore this issue entirely.
-Jeff
On Feb 20, 2009, at 11:41 PM, Ben Lachman wrote:
(Sorry lost track of this post... meant to follow up more quickly)
All I want to do is offer to move the app for the user, once. I
have no problem with anyone running the app from anywhere they'd
like. However, if you've ever looked at a novice user's computer
you'll notice that they often have applications peppered about
their downloads/desktop folder, etc. and that is where they use
them from. It's even worse for DMGs, I know plenty of people that
always launch firefox or whatever from the mounted disk image.
This is counter productive for everyone. Unless you have a reason
not to, you should probably have your applications in /Applications
or ~/Applications.
So basically what I was thinking was something like this:
1) ask the user
2) copy the application package to the appropriate location
3) delete the original application
4) relaunch the new binary
5) quit the original
Sparkle does something like this for updates and Delicious Library
2 does pretty much exactly what I just described as far as I can
tell.
->Ben
On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:52 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Ben,
That's an odd request, because doesn't it make more sense to
install to /Applications if the app is running from /Volumes/MyDMG
rather than from ~/Downloads? :-) Indeed, one of the reasons to
switch from dmg to zip distribution is that the app disappears
when the dmg is unmounted.
-Jeff
On Feb 18, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Ben Lachman wrote:
Hi all:
I'm wanting to move away from DMGs to ZIP delivery. As part of
this move I'd like to have my app, SousChef, prompt the user on
first run to move itself to /Applications (or ~/Applications as
appropriate). In a short search I can't find any code examples
hanging about to do something like this. Would anyone mind
sharing ideas/code on how to do this?
Thanks,
->Ben
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