Re: [Ann] DMG Canvas
Re: [Ann] DMG Canvas
- Subject: Re: [Ann] DMG Canvas
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:23:00 -0700
First off: The app looks great from your screenshots! Well done!
On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
* Because the user then has to unmount the disk image after copying
the app; and because way too many naive users don't understand what
a "disk image" is, and run the app right from the DMG, which works
fine until the next time they reboot or log in ... and then suddenly
"OMG all the apps I downloaded are gone!!" I've known people to keep
re-downloading apps over and over because of this.
If you create an "Internet Enabled" disk image the contents is
unpacked, and the disk image itself moved to the trash, for you
automatically .
This obviously negates most of the neat userinterfacery that you get
out of using this app in the first place though...
I'm not sure if you can both have your cake and eat it when it comes
to software distribution. Either you use something like a Zip file, or
an Internet Enabled DMG - In which case you don't get the nice disk
image backgrounds that we all love (and click through licences that we
all hate), OR you get background, but also all the overhead and
usability problems of DMGs.
Technically I guess that the backgrounds and stuff is just Finder
folder configuration, but for it to "work" the folder would have to
automatically open, and I don't think you can make Safari (or the
other browsers) do that for you when it comes to folders inside Zip
files or Internet Enabled DMGs. I could be wrong though.
j o a r
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