[Adium-devl] The disk image

[Andre-John Mas]

Its at times like this it would be nice to have a poll feature on the
cocoa forge discussion forums. I think we are the point where we
need real feedback from users, otherwise the discussion starts
to sound a bit academic.


Andre

On 9-Nov-06, at 15:51 , Joshua Lock wrote:

>
> On 9 Nov 2006, at 20:39, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> [sorry about the double-send Peter, we should really set reply-to:
>> on this maillist....]
> Darn; me too! Seconded!
>> On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>> You could of course just set the "internet-enabled" bit on a .dmg
>>>> if it contains only one file (just the App, no documentation
>>>> etc.). Then Safari takes care of downloading, expanding and
>>>> deleting the .dmg, the user ends up with the application on the
>>>> desktop.
>>>
>>> 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).
>
> Would it not be possible to have the internet-enabled DMG at the root
> of AdiumX.com and then have a download page (on Trac?) with a DMG
> minus the internet-enabled bit?
>
>> Honestly, I like the dmg, but internet-enabling it might be nice
>> for the majority of our users. I can run this by my panel of non-
>> advanced users (IE: make one of each kind of dmg, see which they
>> prefer) if y'all would like.
>
> I'm with you, personally I'd rather keep the DMG. Would it not be
> possible to have the internet-enabled DMG at the root of AdiumX.com
> and then have a download page (on Trac?) with a DMG minus the
> internet-enabled bit?
>
> - J
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