On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:
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> On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Zachary West wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 21:50, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> In Adium 1.3.10 and prior, we had this nifty installation helper which
>> showed up if you ran Adium from the disk image:
>>
>>
>> It's gone in 1.4. Why?
>>
>> -Evan
>>
>> The OS already prompts users that they are running from a disk image. An
>> additional prompt from Adium seems irritating.
>
> I don't see such a prompt in 10.6.4; I do see the rather unhelpful message:
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> which also appears if I copy it to the Applications folder and launch it.
>
> What message do you get when launching from a disk image?
>
> -Evan
I've seen the warning that Zac refers to from certain applications,
like the latest Stuffit Expander (who even tells you it can move itself to the
/Applications dir), but I'm almost certain that doesn't come from the OS. As
far as I know, the only thing the OS does is what you point out, Evan, which is
accomplished trough an extended attribute that Safari imparts on every file it
downloads (if I'm not mistaken, you can test that by downloading a file from
Firefox and opening it, I'm almost certain you're not going to see the warning
in that case).
My two cents,
- jmpp
