[Adium-devl] The disk image

[David Smith]

Panic does this with their applications; I think it's fine for a  
certain class of users, but overall will result in less technical  
users having a bunch of crap on their desktop and not realizing  
about /Applications. I see this happening a lot with OS9-switchers in  
particular (which is a good % of my customer base; they always need  
help with it).

								David

> I hadn't really thought of the just-one-file thing before.
>
> Currently, we have ten tons of crap in our makefile for positioning  
> the icon Just So, and setting a background, and adding a symlink  
> to /Applications, blah blah blah. We could eliminate all of that,  
> replacing it with:
>
> 	hdiutil internet-enable Adium.dmg
>
> Then, as the commenter notes, Safari would expand the only item  
> (Adium.app) to the desktop, then auto-Trash the dmg. Result: Adium  
> on the user's desktop, ready for him to install anywhere he wants  
> it. No muss, no fuss, for 90% of users (I know I want to keep the  
> dmg, but I doubt I'm in the majority).
>
> I *like* this idea.
>
> What do you think?
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