The 'Copy to Applications' dialogue

Zachary West zacw at adium.im
Thu Oct 28 19:39:50 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 22:07, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <evan.s at dreskin.net>wrote:

>
> On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Zachary West wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 21:50, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <evan.s at dreskin.net>
> wrote:
>
>> In Adium 1.3.10 and prior, we had this nifty installation helper which
>> showed up if you ran Adium from the disk image:
>>
>>
>> It's gone in 1.4.  Why?
>>
>> -Evan
>>
>
> The OS already prompts users that they are running from a disk image. An
> additional prompt from Adium seems irritating.
>
>
> I don't see such a prompt in 10.6.4; I do see the rather unhelpful message:
> which also appears if I copy it to the Applications folder and launch it.
>
> What message do you get when launching from a disk image?
>
> -Evan
>

I didn't like the idea of double annoying dialogs, and I purged a lot of old
code at the time. Feel free to add it back; I am not a fan but I don't have
a strong opinion on the topic.


-- 
Zachary West
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