Re: One click installer a bit bare?

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 15:59 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 15:58, 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?
>>
>> I have no windows box around atm - can you throw up a screenshot
>> somewhere to look at, making it easier to comment? (yes, my VM is
>> broken.. again..)
>>
>
> Guess it is this one:
> http://www.dalibo.org/_media/articles/winpg84/winpg84_18.jpg
>
> from the 8.4 installer. (I have a more current one, but in french
> unfortunately)

Yeah, though the artwork is somewhat more subtle now. The important
stuff on the right is the same.

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