Re: Patches for ROX-Filer and ROX-Lib

Stephen Watson wrote:
> "Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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...
> 
> I was.  Installing from source on machines with no internet access.

Me too, installing from the tarball without zeroinstall. Now I just
handwrite the rox wrapper script, but I agree that "any user" shouldn't
have to do this.

-- 
/Jonatan         [ http://kymatica.com ]

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