17 Jan
2014
17 Jan
'14
6:26 p.m.
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.
While the drafted README for R14.0.0 lists many changes, subsequent
copies would only list bug and security fixes in that release and
will not be large documents.
Of course, the user is free to delete the document from the desktop
at any time. The document reappears on the desktop only with new
releases.
We would need to update the document before officially releasing
each subsequent release, but this simple mechanism would ensure
users are updated with changes.
Thoughts?
Darrell
17 Jan
17 Jan
11:40 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Placing the Release Notes on the Desktop
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?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
11:54 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Placing the Release Notes on the Desktop
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:40:20 -0600
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 01/17/2014 12:26 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
A handbook entry or plain webpage, optionally force-opening it in Konqueror
the first time a user logs into a new version of TDE? I know that the handbook
is the first place I would probably look for the release notes if I wanted them and
had no access to the website.
I agree with David on not liking random things placed on my desktop--it disrupts
my icon grouping and I would probably junk an involuntarily installed icon without
checking to see what it did.
E. Liddell
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?
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