On Wednesday 04 June 2008 05:35, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-06-03 17:22:56]: > > > On Monday 02 June 2008 17:37, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > > > Florent Daigni?re a ?crit : > > > > * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-06-02 14:15:02]: > > > > > > > >>> Additionnaly, that page was in English despite the fact he chose French > > > >>> in the installer. I had to tell him he had to finish the installer and > > > >>> then, click on the link to the first-time wizard. > > > >> Okay this is bad, I think it's been fixed though. Nextgens? > > > >> > > > > > > > > Yeah, it was a windows-specific bug and which has been fixed. > > > > > > Before or after I did the test ? Because it was not at that moment. > > > > > > >>> - Just a detail : every shortcuts (except Browse Freenet) in the menu > > > >>> came with the same default icon. He was disapointed and I had to tell > > > >>> him it was irrelevant and everything was fine. > > > >>> > > > > > > > > If you have icon files I can use I'll be pleased to fix that > > > > > > Well, no I don't *have* any. And seriously, you don't want me to draw > > > some ;) > > > > > > >>> Maybe we should only spawn the browser at the very end of the > > > >>> installation process, when the installer closes and Freenet is up and > > > >>> running. > > > >> We open the browser very shortly after Freenet is working. However, at > > the > > > >> moment, we download and install more stuff after that - namely the > > bundled > > > >> apps. In any case, without major changes to the installer, we have to > > open > > > >> the browser during the processes page (again, am I right nextgens? Is > > there > > > >> any possibility of exit-hooks?). Is it a big deal? > > > > > > > > Last time I tried to use them they were issues > > > > > > > >> The most likely consequence is that the user doesn't complete the > > installer, > > > >> or that there is a long delay before it, right? > > > >> > > > > > > > > We could time-delay the browser startup if that's the only thing :) > > > > > > Any solution would be good. Small details like that keep users telling > > > others that Freenet is complicated. We are so used to it that we can't > > > see them anymore but, newbies do... > > > > I'm not sure that a time delay would help. And exit hooks don't work. So what > > can we do? > > Maybe we should not open the browser and wait for the user to click on > "browse-freenet". > I dunno... what exactly is it that confuses some users?
Most installers for e.g. games have a checkbox on the last page for whether to open the app you just installed on exiting the installer, really we should do that. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080604/22974e0f/attachment.pgp>
