Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598

2008-09-10 Thread Brad O'Hearne
Not to kick a dead horse, or repeat my other post here, but one of things I appreciate greatly about Apple's products is the true design- centric approach to interfaces, as is demonstrated in their software apps and hardware such as the iPod and iPhone. The install / uninstall situation on M

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598

2008-09-10 Thread David
Dragging an application to "Applications" may seem hard or unusual to a user the 1st time they ever install an application on the Mac, but after that its the assumed way to install applications. Consistency is a big deal. Apple should define and enable some consistent application installation mode

OT: Uninstallers (Was: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598)

2008-09-10 Thread Brad O'Hearne
This is starting to stray a bit from Cocoa code talk, but as a bit of feedback to all Cocoa developers out there who are developing applications to ship to end-users (in contrast to internal corp apps), the lack of uninstallers on Mac apps seems to be a notable omission, for an otherwise st

RE: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598

2008-09-10 Thread Tom Fortmann
dnesday, September 10, 2008 9:32 AM To: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598 On 10-Sep-08, at 04:59 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyway, if Mac software starts heading back down the road to > everything having an installer, the appeal of the Mac platfor

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598

2008-09-10 Thread Bill Royds
On 10-Sep-08, at 04:59 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, if Mac software starts heading back down the road to everything having an installer, the appeal of the Mac platform vs. Windows will be severely diminished in my eyes. Drag and drop puts the user in control - installers put the user