On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 05:04 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > I think it would be more useful to migrate the settings for those applications > than the list of installed apps itself. Note that the default desktop task > already contains a balanced selection of programs that includes Iceweasel, > OOo and GIMP.
True, although I imagine there are a lot of Windows apps out there that have FOSS equivalents but those equivalents aren't installed in the default Desktop. As a first start on identifying them, maybe debian.exe could prompt the user if it is OK to submit the list of apps in the start menu and the Windows 'installed applications' list to Debian. Another idea would be to scan the formats in the users Desktop and My Documents folders and then if anything special is found, then suggest appropriate applications for opening those files. > As for capturing the settings, I'm not sure if win32-loader is the place to do > that. If it was done somewhere else, then this functionality would always be > available, regardless of which method was used to load D-I. Ubuntu seems to have that available, perhaps we can steal it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigrationAssistance http://www.ubuntu.com/files/u1/migration-assistant.jpg http://packages.ubuntu.com/migration-assistant -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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