On 01/17/2014 12:26 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
> All,
> 
> The eventual release of R14 will mark a turning point in Trinity 
> history. The R14 release is significant because of the many class 
> and branding renaming changes. While we have drafted a README 
> document to explain such changes, we have no mechanism for users to 
> read the document.
> 
> I would like to see us patch the sources such that a Release Notes 
> document is always placed on the user's desktop when updating to a 
> new release. That practice would continue with maintenance releases 
> too.

Darrell,

  I usually always agree with you, but here I don't. It absolutely burns me up
when an install places things on my desktop that I haven't told it to put there
and I don't want. I just think of windows and all the worthless links you had to
delete off the desktop just to see a clean desktop.

  I agree it would be good to give that information to users on install, but
can't we find a better place for it? Why not do it in:

   a small systray app that is run on first use after install; or
   a button in the about:tde dialog access from every help menu; or
   as an entry in tmenu -> README - R14 Release (opening in kwrite)

  Anything, I mean anything, except a whopping big icon planted on the desktop

> Thoughts?

  You asked ;-)

  Where else do you think we could put it that would accomplish what you are
trying to do?

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.