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 very first installation (easy) or should there be a "Don't ask this >>question again" (harder)? >> >>And, if that page goes away, should setup.exe just exit when it is done >>or should it still have something that you click? > >We have to have /some/ kind of final page to let people know that setup >completed successfully, if it just suddenly exits it will look like it >might have crashed. Given that, it's just common sense to put those >buttons onto it.
I agree. I thought if I didn't mention the option someone else would. >I think the buttons should behave like one-shots, I don't think they >should remember their settings, and I think they should default on for >a first install only. That's easily done. > Also I think the complaints would probably go away if we relaid-out that >page so that the main central area was just a "Congrats, setup completed OK" >message and the buttons were small and out of the way in the lower part of the >page somewhere, rather than being the central focus of the page. That way >people wouldn't feel they were being put through an extra unnecessary step >just to be presented with a couple of options they probably don't want 99% of >the time; they'd just feel that they were being presented with a completion >screen. (We could even add a "Launch Cygwin now" tickbox under the "completed >ok" message if we wanted to really try and manipulate people's subconscious >responses to the page. People complain about it because it's unfamiliar; make >it more familiar and they'll not feel uncomfortable when they encounter it.) I think all of the above makes sense. Looking at the final scren, it's prominently labelled "Create Icons". That is just wrong. 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? If we have a "Launch Cygwin now" button that should probably also be on for the first install and off for any subsequent runs. cgf
