Re: Adding an icon to the dock
Re: Adding an icon to the dock
- Subject: Re: Adding an icon to the dock
- From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 13:10:06 -0400
On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Steve Israelson wrote:
One issue my clients always mention is that most users are not that
computer savvy.
Making (potentially dangerous) modifications to your users
computers to overcompensate for a small percentage of users who don't
know how to use their computers is a rather bad idea. However, if you
*must* do this, make it an installer script and ask the user if they
want to install the app in their dock.
Me, being a savvy user, just cringes, like most of you, when I hear
this, but the problems these users have are real ones and how to
make those users lives easier is the problem to solve.
This is for Apple to resolve as the maker of the operating system,
not individual developers. File an enhancement request on the
installer app or the OS in general. In the meantime, you can argue
with your client that such forcible modifications to the dock's
preferences are potentially dangerous and it's not up to individual
authors to take such risks to 'help' the smaller percentage of users
who can't be bothered to read the manual and learn how to install
applications.
I have argued and will continue to argue this with clients in the
past (successfully) on similar points. You're *always* going to have
illiterate users. Why short-circuit things and punish the rest just
for them?
--
I.S.
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