Message 164630 - Python tracker

Message164630

Author	jasonspiro
Recipients	AaronR, Jim.Jewett, brian.curtin, christian.heimes, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, helder-magalhaes, jasonspiro, jdigital, jonathan.hartley, lambacck, loewis, ncoghlan, pekka.klarck, pitrou, python-dev
Date	2012-07-03.23:38:10
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Just a few comments on your new UI design <http://i.imgur.com/415Y1.png>: == Suggestion 1 == It seems, from your screenshot, that you plan to hide the [ Next > ] and [ Cancel ] buttons, and show your [ Yes ] and [ No ] buttons instead. This is doing something completely unexpected to the user. I've used hundreds or thousands of Windows installers and IIRC never seen such a thing. Instead, may I suggest a checkbox: [x] Prepend the Python folder to the PATH environment variable (recommended) and leaving the [ Next > ] and [ Cancel ] buttons as-is. == Suggestion 2 == Better yet, get rid of the screen which talks about changing the PATH entirely. Instead, on the feature-selection screen, make the prepend-Python-to-PATH option be selected by default. Why not try implementing this suggestion in the next 3.3.0 beta? Then you can see if the tech-support burden increases or decreases.

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Just a few comments on your new UI design <http://i.imgur.com/415Y1.png>:

== Suggestion 1 ==

It seems, from your screenshot, that you plan to hide the [ Next > ]
and [ Cancel ] buttons, and show your [ Yes ] and [ No ] buttons
instead.  This is doing something completely unexpected to the user.
I've used hundreds or thousands of Windows installers and IIRC never
seen such a thing.

Instead, may I suggest a checkbox:

    [x] Prepend the Python folder to the PATH environment variable (recommended)

and leaving the [ Next > ] and [ Cancel ] buttons as-is.

== Suggestion 2 ==

Better yet, get rid of the screen which talks about changing the PATH
entirely.  Instead, on the feature-selection screen, make the
prepend-Python-to-PATH option be selected by default.

Why not try implementing this suggestion in the next 3.3.0 beta?  Then
you can see if the tech-support burden increases or decreases.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-07-03 23:38:11	jasonspiro	set	recipients: + jasonspiro, loewis, ncoghlan, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, eric.araujo, lambacck, brian.curtin, jonathan.hartley, pekka.klarck, python-dev, AaronR, jdigital, Jim.Jewett, helder-magalhaes
2012-07-03 23:38:10	jasonspiro	link	issue3561 messages
2012-07-03 23:38:10	jasonspiro	create