On May 28, 2007, at 2:40 AM, Johan Henselmans wrote:
My first 20 lines:OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger with the AQUA interface WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE WILL CRASH AND WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK This is a alpha test version so that developers and users can find out what works and what not, and make comments on how to improve it. WHAT DOES NOT WORK IN THIS VERSION: -You can not print -Starting OpenOffice from a shared folder does not work -You can not copy and paste parts of a document -OpenOffice will crash after quitting it
+1...though, not to be a stickler on grammar, but I think 'may' instead of 'will' would be more appropriate. 'Will' implies that the crashing and destroying of data is guaranteed to happen, whereas 'may' implies that there is a chance this will happen.
Perhaps: WARNING: THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND DESTROY YOUR DATA. DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK.
I would also recommend that this version would be in a package installer version, just for the sake that you can stick this message in the installer.
-1IMO, installers are annoying, and only necessary if files need to be installed in more than one place (i.e. outside a .app bundle) or a script needs to be run before or afterward. I think dragging and dropping a .app to /Applications is almost synonymous with Mac (though I do realize that Apple uses installers for most of their software).
On May 28, 2007, at 4:02 AM, Shaun McDonald wrote:
People very rarely read readmes
Unfortunately, I believe this is very true. As a Mac user, I'm more likely to read a README file in the dmg than I am to read through an agreement in an installer (though that may be due to my Linux heritage). I suggest either adding an agreement to the dmg when mounting, although may be just as unlikely to be read by users, or a README file (preferably highlighted in red or some other vibrant color). It would also be good to have the warning posted in large text, bold, etc on the download page if at all possible.
just my 2 cents ~Jayson -- This message is digitally signed with GnuPG: http://www.kempinger.us/gpg.php?eid=3
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