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setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 16:38:34 -0400
- Subject: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)
- References: <20050430025424.GC24555@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050501021950.EAE5113C242@cgf.cx> <20050501043738.GA24023@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <003001c54f51$25727310$77ac7682@azwaterDOM.wr.usgs.gov>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
>I for one appreciate the clarification as I sent a detailed bug-report
>to this person assuming they were the maintainer. My question as I've
>asked before is, can or is someone working on improving accessibility
>of setup.exe for those of us who have to use windows via a screenreader
>and keyboard. Many of the buttons and controlls do not get focus and
>can't be opperated in the normal manner.
Did you happen to follow the "setup.exe sucks" thread over in
cygwin-apps? Basically, it boils down to the fact that I and others are
not really thrilled with setup.exe in its current form. While it is an
impressive program in some ways, the UI is (apparently) too
non-intuitive and the mean-time between bug fixes is too long.
Are you aware of a setup-like program out there which "gets it right" as
far as UI is concerned? It would be nice to transition to an
open-sources alternative which was actively supported.
cgf
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