Re: User interaction API: outputMessage

Hi

Isak Savo wrote:
> It's a design decision. We wanted to make the installation without
> user interaction, and for almost all cases, the questions the
> installer wishes to ask the user are irrelevant and can be skipped.
>   
[snip]
> a) asked by the actual program later
> or
> b) answered automatically by the program/installer
>   
My opinion is that limiting options is not a sound decision.

There are also possible issues when the application has to perform 
actions later by itself. Autopackage has gone to considerable lengths 
(pains rather) to make integrating shortcuts, mime types and such work 
flawlessly across distributions. I think that applications should be 
able to reuse this work, rather than implement their own (possiby 
broken) logic.

The best,

L.

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