Re: Installer UI advices

[M. Uli Kusterer]

At 17:26 Uhr +0100 16.03.2005, Frederico Muñoz wrote:
> On 2005-03-16 15:50:10 +0000 M. Uli Kusterer 
> <Witness.of.TeachText@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > At 10:27 Uhr +0100 16.03.2005, Benoit wrote:
> > > 	It's far more easy to unmount the disk 
> > > image than to erase a decompressed archive.
> >
> > Not really. On MacOS, you just drag both to the trash.
>
> Well, using a DMG you need to drag one file, 
> using an archive you would need to trash the 
> archive and the decompressed contents of it. 
> This could be avoided with some support for 
> archives at the desktop level though, as you 
> said previously.

 Same using a DMG, just that there you drag the 
disk image file and the mounted volume to the 
trash.

> If this would be an imporvement over archives is 
> open to discussion (and I must agree with you 
> that I don't think that, again given appropriate 
> support, DMG's hold any advantage over 
> archives), but the concept itself is doable.

 Yes, it *can* be done, no objection there. But 
it *shouldn't* be done. Too many additional 
points of failure, too many OS differences 
between mounting volumes on different 
Linuxes/Unixes. I'm just trying to get across 
that we want to stick with archives, because they 
hold no advantage over MacOS's DMGs.

Archives, OTOH, just take one self-contained 
archive unpacking tool. No messing with 
mount-points, no apps that have to talk together.
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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