On 01/17/2014 12:26 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
All,
The eventual release of R14 will mark a turning point in Trinity history. The R14 release is significant because of the many class and branding renaming changes. While we have drafted a README document to explain such changes, we have no mechanism for users to read the document.
I would like to see us patch the sources such that a Release Notes document is always placed on the user's desktop when updating to a new release. That practice would continue with maintenance releases too.
Darrell,
I usually always agree with you, but here I don't. It absolutely burns me up when an install places things on my desktop that I haven't told it to put there and I don't want. I just think of windows and all the worthless links you had to delete off the desktop just to see a clean desktop.
I agree it would be good to give that information to users on install, but can't we find a better place for it? Why not do it in:
a small systray app that is run on first use after install; or a button in the about:tde dialog access from every help menu; or as an entry in tmenu -> README - R14 Release (opening in kwrite)
Anything, I mean anything, except a whopping big icon planted on the desktop
Thoughts?
You asked ;-)
Where else do you think we could put it that would accomplish what you are trying to do?