On Friday 15 May 2009 16:35:40 Thomas Sachau wrote: > Matthew Toseland schrieb: > > On Thursday 14 May 2009 18:35:07 Thomas Sachau wrote: > >> Matthew Toseland schrieb: > >>> My observation: Can we get rid of the "I will configure it manually" > >>> choice? > >>> And maybe the welcome page? (#3094) > >> You want to force everyone to use the Wizard? > > > > Why would that be bad? > > What if i dont want to do use the Wizard? Also, if i removed the "wizard done" line (intentinally or > by mistake), a new run would remove my custom settings. With the option, i can just stop the wizard > and no harm done.
If you know enough to skip the wizard you should shutdown the node, edit the config file and tell the node you have done the wizard! > > >>> Related idea: We should maybe tell the user in the installer that they > >>> should > >>> use a separate browser for Freenet, rather than in the wizard? And then > >>> let > >>> them choose one, and then use it when they click on the icon to browse > >>> Freenet? (#3104) > >> This would produce additional work for people packaging freenet, since they > >> would have to warn the > >> user themselves, while users tend to ignore the output of the package > >> manager. > >> So this would lower the chance of people noticing the request for a > >> different freenet > >> browser/profile and therefor i am against it. I suggest the current way: > >> Warning during first call > >> of the webinterface like it is currently done. > > > > Well, maybe on linux, with the packages that we don't have yet... > > Did you miss the Gentoo ebuilds? > Isnt it a goal to get other distros to package it too? Just because it did not happen until now, > doesnt mean it wont happen some time in the future. May just need more time since Gentoo as source > based distro may be a bit better for packages than binary distros. No, it is a goal to package it with private repositories. Having a debian package that is frozen for 3 years is not useful at the present time. > > And if we have it for linux, why would you like to add additional code for windows (both in the > installer and in freenet, which would have to detect the OS and then decide to show the warning or > not)? Well, we could do something similar for *nix, no? Launch a suitable privacy enabled browser when the user runs the browse-freenet script? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090516/acfb23dc/attachment.pgp>
