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Re: website draft 4, help wanted
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Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: website draft 4, help wanted |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:28:25 -0700 |
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On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:49:42AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
>
> I'm with Chip here. Explicit, unambiguous, fool-proof. Have you
> noticed the troubles I've had recently with abbreviated
> instructions? (: Assume nothing; assume the user is a robot.
I see an inconsistency here. As far as we know, the first step
differs whether the OS is ME, 2000, XP, or Vista. So this is
hardly "fool-proof". In fact, I would suggest that the first step
is the most important one; after somebody has begun running the
installer, they are prompted by on-screen questions[1].
[1] I think. I've never seen the lilypond windows installer, and
probably never will.
> I can't say for certain, but on Windows I seem to recall that the
> two uninstall options are not always the same? The rumor I hear the
> most often is that the uninstall.exe provided by the program
> usually knows how to uninstall the program (and all of its
> potentially disjunct files) better than the control panel uninstall
> function, which may accidentally leave some distant files undeleted
> (perhaps not a big issue with LilyPond, though).
I would expect the control panel uninstall to call the program's
uninstall. Could somebody look into this?
As I said before, I'm not particularly interested in the windows
instructions. But inconsistency bugs me; if you want to explain
every single step, then make sure you explain every single step in
every single Windows version. I suspect that this might result in
isntructions which are long, confusing, and intimidating... but I
leave the choice of this page up to windows users.
(not necessarily Chip and Mark; other windows users are more than
welcome to weigh in on this discussion)
Cheers,
- Graham
- Re: website draft 4, help wanted, (continued)
Re: website draft 4, help wanted, Jonathan Kulp, 2009/07/03
Re: website draft 4, help wanted, chip, 2009/07/03
- Re: website draft 4, help wanted, Graham Percival, 2009/07/03
- Re: website draft 4, help wanted, chip, 2009/07/03
- Re: website draft 4, help wanted, Mark Polesky, 2009/07/04
- Re: website draft 4, help wanted, Tim McNamara, 2009/07/04
- Re: website draft 4, help wanted, chip, 2009/07/04
- Re: website draft 4, help wanted,
Graham Percival <=
Re: website draft 4, help wanted, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/07/06
Re: website draft 4, help wanted, Patrick McCarty, 2009/07/06
Re: website draft 4, help wanted, Graham Percival, 2009/07/08