Re: Patches for ROX-Filer and ROX-Lib

"Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> Thu, 9 Oct 2008 19:07:44 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/10/8 Stephen Watson <[email protected]>:
> "Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 2008/10/5 Stephen Watson <[email protected]>:
>> >  - Create start script 'rox' since there isn't an install script to do
> it
>> > anymore.  Adds both a menu entry and a button in the options
> (Compatability
>> > section).
>>
>> I didn't add this (sorry). It doesn't feel right at all. Putting an
>> "install myself" item in every program would be a horrible UI. It
>> should be done by the installer (bundled or otherwise), or the user,
>> not as part of the UI to the main program.
>
> ROX-Lib runs the filer by calling the rox script.  A new user doing a fresh
> install from source won't get any such script!

OK, maybe the install script needs to come back? I guess people were
using it after all...


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