Re: Usability of the Webite and Installation of ROX-Desktop

On 6 July 2010 00:58, Daniel c. Würl <[email protected]> wrote:
> First an hello of mine-
> great to be here.
>
> I'm using ROX for quite a time now, first as an filer, later on with
> some of its desktop-features.
>
> And installing it didn't work to well, even with the ROX-All-package.
> I got error-messages of missing libs I thought to have already
> installed (mainly ROXlib2 and its pals, though installed automatically
> via 0installs depency tracking some Apps won't find them) and so on.

Everything in the ROX-All package should find its own dependencies
correctly, I think. Which programs failed?

> Finding help was difficult as well since the webpage of ROX gives me
> much info, but mostly cluttered around, leaving comments is a cruel job
> ("There's a login-pane, but where the **** can I register?") and so on.
>
> While I think the webpage needs a big redesign and Iam not really
> interested in help there I think I'm on my way to get all running as
> expected at home (after fiddling quite some time, and at least a bit
> more will follow).

sf.net are now offering to host various content management systems
and, presumably, handle the spam filtering. Maybe someone wants to set
up a new site there? We moved it to roscidus.com because sf.net was
too slow, but they've upgraded their infrastructure since then.

> The ROX-All lets you stand in rain, because it doesn't even contain the
> libs mentioned above,

There are two versions. The network-enabled one is very small and just
downloads the latest versions on demand. The -no-network one bundles
the libraries. See:

  http://roscidus.com/desktop/ROX-All   ("No-network install")

> and with the 0install you don't even know where
> your software is (yes by now I know this, but I'm a rather expierenced
> linux-user, which isn't exactly addressed by the "userfriendly" found on
> the webpage).

I've added this text to the page:

"If you're curious about where the applications got unpacked to, right
click on one and choose Help to open its Help sub-directory. Go up to
the parent directory to see the rest of its files."


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