installer testing feedback

[Ralf Habacker]

Lydia Pintscher schrieb:
> Heya folks :)
>
> While visiting family over Christmas I did some testing of the
> KDE-on-Windows installer. I asked my brother (pretty average geeky
> Windows user) to install Amarok and Parley. Here are some of the
> things I noticed. (Some of them might be completely obvious to you -
> sorry.) Hope it helps.
>
> * The download link on the website was hidden in the intro text. A
> link in the sidebar is needed. People don't read.
>   
See http://windows.kde.org - the website got some update
> * A standalone installer is needed. The whole concept of downloading
> the installer and then selecting which programs to install was not
> obvious at all especially when the goal is to "install Amarok". I fear
> anything else will make a lot of users not install certain KDE
> applications. Most of the users you will get in the future will want
> to install _one_ application which will hopefully make them also
> install others.
>   
There is an initial implementation of specialized installers targeted to 
one application/package available with a reduced ui - probably need some 
polishing
> * During installation one was asked which KDE version to download. It
> was absolutely not obvious which one is the best or recommended one.
> Maybe get rid of it completely or at least make a recommendation and
> make it obvious? Also are the old KDE versions really needed? Who is
> installing them?
>   
I think we must differentiate between an end user and a power user. For 
end users  it is  only importent so select between the latest stable or 
unstable release.
> * All in all there are too many options to choose from but some of
> them could be removed with a standalone installer I suppose. Some
> people will just give up otherwise.
> * I need to improve the download page on the Amarok website. Fail :(
> Help appreciated.
>
> There seemed to have been a problem with localisation of XDG-user-dirs
> but my brother's computer is pretty messy so I can't say for sure
> where the problem was. And GetHotNewStuff wanted GPG which wasn't
> installed. I think it worked without it in the end. Damn I should take
> better notes...
>   
I don't know any application named  GetHotNewStuff - are your refering 
to khotnewstuff4 ? 
> Besides those problems Amarok worked pretty nicely on Windows.
>   
nice to hear.
> Unfortunately we didn't get to actually use Parley because we ran out
> of time. 
Two of my childrens are using parley for their daily vocable learning - 
there are some minor issues and sometime it crashes
> Great work everyone! You surely are helping make KDE's world
> domination plans (TM) reality :P  Maybe one day I can even make my
> brother a true Amarok fan and get him away from ITunes  ;-)
>   
Regards
 
Ralf