{"id":2261,"date":"2003-05-16T22:46:53","date_gmt":"2003-05-17T01:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=443"},"modified":"2010-05-09T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T03:00:05","slug":"re-pros-and-cons-of-dmg-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/16\/re-pros-and-cons-of-dmg-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Pros and Cons of .dmg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Buzz, thanks for dropping by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buzz Andersen wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are definitely some problems with disk images, but you&#8217;re probably right that people who don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; them are in the minority (and they&#8217;re probably the type of people who, honestly, would have problems regardless of how the software was distributed <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_smile.gif\" \/> ).  I know I&#8217;ve encountered more than two users who have run into this problem myself (probably more on the order of 6 or 7), but that&#8217;s still not *that* many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right, there&#8217;s a point of diminishing returns for idiot-proofing, otherwise &#8220;normal&#8221; users will start to complain that the application or the installation process is too patronizing; just look at the average Windows &#8220;wizard&#8221;&#8230;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buzz Andersen wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now I&#8217;m starting to think the solution to my problem might simply be to put a very prominent graphic with the words &#8220;Drag this to the Applications folder&#8221; and an arrow pointing toward the application into the background of the disk image.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly my point. I&#8217;ve thought of adding &#8220;&#8230;and eject this disk image&#8221;, but that may already be too condescending.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also read a suggestion (can&#8217;t recall where right now, sorry) of providing a symbolic link to the Application folder on the disk image, and saying &#8220;Please drop the application here&#8221;. Supposedly some BeOS installers worked that way &#8211; it sounds interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Buzz, thanks for dropping by&#8230; Buzz Andersen wrote: There are definitely some problems with disk images, but you&#8217;re probably right that people who don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; them are in the minority (and they&#8217;re probably the type of people who, honestly, would have problems regardless of how the software was distributed ). I know I&#8217;ve encountered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-At","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}