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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    AW: Before we go into Beta
From:       "Ferdinand Gassauer" <f.gassauer () aon ! at>
Date:       2000-05-08 14:41:29
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jono Bacon [mailto:jonobaconlists@yahoo.com]
> Gesendet am: Montag, 08. Mai 2000 16:27
> An: kde-devel@kde.org
> Betreff: RE: Before we go into Beta
>
> --- Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz@cobol2java.com> wrote:
> > An installation program means for me that I can
> > download a tiny program and
> > run it - then It will be able to download all the
> > files from either
> > ftp.kde.org, another mirror, or a cd-r I'm burning
> > at work - and then
> > installing it. Look at Helix installer how it
> > handles it - they did an
> > excellent job there.
>
> I totally agree. We need to provide a simple wizard
> like installation program that is pretty and easy to
> use. The program should allow for a network, hard disk
> or CDROM/DVD installation, and be able to set up the
> things like themes, keyboard, icons etc.
may be contact SuSE, after installing with YAST2, you get a pretty nice
KDE1.1.2 setup. so it shouldn't be a big problem to adopt htis for KDE2
cu
ferdinand

>
> > You must remember that you're dealing with end users
> > here who probably
> > won't understand too much why do they need QT 2.1,
> > where to put the files,
> > which modifications they need to do to their
> > .bash_profile/.profile files,
> > and how to switch back and forth from KDE 1 to KDE2
> > - and vice versa..
>
> Exactly...if KDE is really easy to use...whats the
> point in working this hard on it if no end user can
> install it!
>
> > These people are not developers who can just
> > download from CVS, compile,
> > modify script and run - these are end users..
>
> My thoughts precicely, and to be quite honest, I am
> surprised there has been so much opposition to the
> idea.
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Jono
>
>
>
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> KDE/Qt Developer - Founder of Linux UK
>                    http://www.jonobacon.co.uk/
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