Re: One click installer a bit bare?

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It may be minimal, but the last page of the installer could have a button to
>>>>> take them to support page of .Org?
>>>>
>>>> Can't do a button, but the new version of BitRock we've just upgraded
>>>> to (yesterday!) does support hyperlinked labels, so I've asked one of
>>>> the guys to add a "Visit the PostgreSQL Website" link to the final
>>>> page. That seems better than the support page to me, as they can then
>>>> jump straight to support or whatever else they need.
>>>
>>> The installer used to ask if people would like to subscribe to announce list.
>>>
>>> That seems a good thing to help us keep in touch with people.
>>
>> We can do that certainly - but I don't want to do both, otherwise
>> we'll end up with too much text on there that people will just ignore
>> (we know from experience this happens with installation wizards).
>> There is already additional text on the page that needs to stay (the
>> "It's complete" text and "Leave this checked to run StackBuilder and
>> download Slony/PostGIS/psqlODBC/Whatever" checkbox).
>>
>> So, which link is preferred?
>
> OK, if we don't want to put that there, why not add it as a menu item
> to pgadmin?
>
> That way we'll catch people even after they've run installer.

We don't even have the pgAdmin mailing lists on the pgAdmin menus
(they're in the Helpfile). I'm not sure I can recall any software that
has such links on it's menus, at least not professionally produced
products.

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