Re: Improving the User Experience for First Use of Downloadable Software
Re: Improving the User Experience for First Use of Downloadable Software
- Subject: Re: Improving the User Experience for First Use of Downloadable Software
- From: Steve Cronin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:38:04 -0600
Folks;
Thanks for the thoughts on this matter!
I think Matt raises an great point about hijacking on subsequent launches.
Personally I'm mistrustful of installers..
why does a simple application need to go mucking around on my system?
why is this application different than all the other 'drag-n-drop' applications?
I think it creates another barrier to installation - another excuse for the customer to bail...
And it is yet more code to maintain -- for what benefit?
Anyway wouldn't an installer have to pass the 'Quarantine' dialog also?
Steve
On Feb 26, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Matthew Lindfield Seager wrote:
> On Friday, February 26, 2010, Charles Srstka <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I suppose for the time being, you could use -[NSApplication activateIgnoringOtherApps:] in your application delegate’s applicationDidFinishLaunching: method as a workaround.
>
>
> Caveat Emptor:
> If you do this you may annoy customers (on subsequent launches) who
> launch your application and then switch to Safari/Mail/Finder/other
> while your app is launching... Moments later (or seconds or minutes
> later depending on how long your app takes to launch on that machine)
> your app will appear to hijack the user's computer for no discernible
> reason.
>
>
> An additional step to avoid annoying these people might be to only
> order your app to the front if it's the first time it has been
> launched...? ($0.02)
>
> Matt
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