On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:19:14AM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > According to Ian Clarke, > > As the developers work hard to improve the core operation of Freenet, it > > can be easy to forget about the more superficial, but equally important > > aspects of Freenet, namely installation procedures, and usability for > > newbies. > > > > For those intimately familiar with Freenet's operation it can be > > difficult to look at Freenet's operation from the perspective of someone > > new to the software, and often something that seems minor and trivial to > > a core developer, might have a significant impact on a new user's view > > of the software. > > > > So, this email is an invitation to anyone that has constructive > > criticism or suggestion's for how Freenet's "first impression" can be > > enhanced. Topics include installation, FProxy, even the website's layout. > > Installing 'freenet://' URL as a helper for popular browsers, > automatcially, with the installation of freenet. Not as a > plug-in for every known browser, but at least the mailcap > files (that way standards-based browsers will Just Work).
See other threads. Ian says we'd have to support every browser, and we'd have constant grumbles about it; I'm inclined to think that 90% of users use IE despite the warnings and 90% of the remainder use Mozilla, Lynx, Links or Opera. I have no idea how to do a plugin for Opera, but an IE plugin has been done, and the others are easy too IIRC. > > Opening up the JVM requirements so it's not so complicated > to get the infrastructure needed to get freenet going. > (JGC?) That's a whole other flamewar. They seem to be getting there... But there's nothing *we* can do to help. The basic issue is they need to support java.nio. > > Get Debian maintainer to update the freenet .debs (even > freenet-unstable is obsolete and broken) and fix the > dependencies it so it will Just Work (i.e. without complicated > JVM requirements). This would make Freenet available to the > likes of Lindows users. That would be very, very, very nice. Although it would only affect 20% of our users or so. But we need NIO in GCJ and/or Kaffe first. Dalibor tells me this is pretty close though. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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