[odf-discuss] New installer for Linux

[Daniel Carrera]

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 16:48 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> As you know, I prefer an installer that can be run from the GUI, 
> so I hope you can get that working eventually. Meanwhile, this is 
> good. Thanks again for all your work!

Honestly, I haven't been trying to make the installer have a GUI. It's
nice if it does, but I'm not putting much effort into it. This is what
I'm going for right now:

* User clicks on the installer.
* User is asked "Run" or "Run on Terminal". Use clicks on "Run on
Terminal" (this would be explained in the installation instructions).
* A terminal pops up where the user sees informative but text-only
feedback.
* When it's done it says "Package installed. Press Enter to finish."
* User presses Enter and the terminal closes.

I figure that this is almost as good as a true GUI installer, and it's
much more likely to work reliably. Then, if the user also gets a GUI
dialog with a progress bar in addition to the terminal, then that's a
small bonus.

If later on we decide that the GUI comes up reliably, we can tell users
to click on "Run" instead of "Run on Terminal" and I can remove the
"Press Enter to finish" line.

What do you think?
Cheers,
Daniel.