On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:40:20 -0600
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote:

> 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?

A handbook entry or plain webpage, optionally force-opening it in Konqueror
the first time a user logs into a new version of TDE?  I know that the handbook
is the first place I would probably look for the release notes if I wanted them and
had no access to the website.

I agree with David on not liking random things placed on my desktop--it disrupts
my icon grouping and I would probably junk an involuntarily installed icon without 
checking to see what it did.

E. Liddell