Xfce users in Zero Install survey

[Stephan Arts]

On 10/5/07, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Nick Schermer wrote:
>
> > Well only 1.56% knows about zeroinstall, so probably < 1% actually uses it.
>
> I won't debate this, as I don't know how many people know about it, and
> I suspect you don't either.
>
> > Maybe the 'not a standard' argument was not a good one, but you still
> > have to agree with me dropping a zero install url on a launcher is not
> > a good wait to install applications.
>
> Your use of the word "install" is not very good here.  You don't install
> Zero Install apps (hence the name).  You simply run them, and they get
> cached locally if you haven't run them before.  Adding it to the
> launcher doesn't actually *do* anything -- it only sets the launcher to
> launch the app it it clicked, just as if it was a 'normal' local pp.
>
> > I've no problems supporting other projects, but the launcher is not
> > the right place to implement zeroinstall.
>
> Then what is?  It's a place to add applications to your panel.  What
> does it matter if the app is local or remote?  Please don't remove a
> potentially useful feature that has no impact on other uses of the
> panel/launcher just because you don't understand it.
>
>         -brian

I can only say that making software available for users by dropping
them to the panel makes perfect sense to my mother...

Zero Install adds an extra dimension to usability, it improves
productivity if you use it, but having it around and not using it does
not decrease productivity either. Adding it seems trivial (if i
understand you all correctly) and won't add lots of otherwise useless
code...

So why remove it?

Stephan