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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Integrated self-extracting installers
From:       Jono Bacon <f9808590 () wlv ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2001-04-23 12:42:45
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> Well, I thought over this for years, sure the others did as well. But 
> I
> didn't get to a real solution up to now. Distro's are using different
> stuff everywhere, so the only real solution for a stable, non-crashing
> install-wizard would be to include one into the core of KDE that is
> called by KDE itself if the user wants to install an app. It would be
> more of an extension of KPackage though to install all this stuff. 
> Think
> about it, maybe it's worth considering to add that as another module 
> to
> kdeadmin.

To be honest Ralf, I think it would be a great idea to have some kind 
of backend lib in kdelibs or something in which you could include a 
special type of file with a package (created in kdevelop), and then 
when the user clicks on that file (eg - setup.inst), it launches a 
program which installs the program via a wizard type interface. The 
setup.inst file could be some kind of config file (similer to a 
.desktop file) which has details on how the wizard should operate. 
Maybe an example would be:

 [page1]
 text="this is the text on the page"
 [page2]
 text="what type of install would you like?"
 inst_type=minimimal = mininst
 [mininst]
 blah blah

This is just a 30second fleshout of the idea. But if the KDE system had 
the backend code to present the wizard, all software could then be 
installed in a uniform and standard way. This would make KDE *much* 
easier to use.

Cheers,

          Jono

Jono Bacon - [vmlinuz] -- jono@kde.org
KDE/Qt Developer


 
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