Tim Wood wrote:
+1
FWIW, some LiveCDs have an index.htm or index.html file in the root of
the cdrom that holds the readme and links to an html version of the GPL,
etc. Going off memory, there's an autorun dot something file in the
root of many windows cds that is used to automatically open such
I'm pretty sure I'm on record as a +1 for this. I won't argue too much
for changing the existing README/GPL (but then again I don't use
winblowz and don't really know how ugly the current behavior is or is not).
But what I will advocate again is something like
/Documentation/Fedora-8-Release-Notes.html
and
/autorun.inf
When I last played around with such - 6 years ago - I recall there were
various ways you could have the autorun.inf launch the html. For
compatability reasons (and I think also not opening/flashing a cmd shell
in the background) I ended up going with some open source program that
invoked some windows blessed htmlview equivalent. Anyway, I'm sure
there is some best way these days. I would even vote for just doing
something that works immediately, and replacing it with a
nicer/more-compatible way in the future if one is found.
And because I like to throw ideas on the table, I'll reiterate the idea
of having win32 qemu installed(!=installer) on the iso, such that the
livecd user can pop it in in windows, and then boot it up virtually,
without so much as having to have anything else installed on their computer.
One thing I just found, which applies to that and perhaps other options
is this-
http://www.x-lair.com/myprograms/autoc.html
which appears to be a nice open source win32 GUI shell to spawn multiple
things. I.e. so that on autorun, it opens up a menu that says (lets the
user choose)
a) view the fedora-8 release notes
b) view the fedora-8 livecd documentation
c) run fedora-8 livecd virtually under qemu
d) install firefox for windows
Again, yes, much of this is unrealistic for various reasons. Just
planting seeds... ;)
-dmc
creatures when they're inserted in a windows box. Knoppix uses this to
give info about the cd, links to the project and give a soft sell on the
product. Pretty cool, low effort promotional tactic IMHO. I believe
there's something similar for OS X, and (if anyone decides to take this
approach), I've got a MacBook Pro, so I could dig up and test the
comparable widgit for that OS. Heck... I could do the same thing with
XP...
Tim
On Oct 15, 2007, at 6:30 AM, Nelson Strother wrote:
As of f8t3, the files GPL and README have no filetype extension.
For unlucky users on non-Linux operating systems where files with no
filetype have been configured to be swallowed by e.g. a database
program, or a game as a saved level, this could lead to puzzling
results. For the lucky users, attempting to read either of these
files is likely to bring up an "open with ..." dialog where they
select which program should attempt to interpret these files. For the
non-technical users who may be most likely to need to read some of
this information, such a choice may be overwhelming.
Would not these be better as:
GPL.txt
README.html
It should be a rather safe assumption that some web browser is
available on any system new enough to have a CD drive. Converting
back to html for a <hr> and the couple of internal hyperlinks will be
far more portable than the current wiki gibberish.
Might this have already been fixed in the 20071011 LiveCD:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-October/msg00561.html
or should I repeat these observations in bugzilla?
Cheers,
Nelson
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