On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:49:42AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > I'm with Chip here. Explicit, unambiguous, fool-proof. Have you > noticed the troubles I've had recently with abbreviated > instructions? (: Assume nothing; assume the user is a robot.
I see an inconsistency here. As far as we know, the first step differs whether the OS is ME, 2000, XP, or Vista. So this is hardly "fool-proof". In fact, I would suggest that the first step is the most important one; after somebody has begun running the installer, they are prompted by on-screen questions[1]. [1] I think. I've never seen the lilypond windows installer, and probably never will. > I can't say for certain, but on Windows I seem to recall that the > two uninstall options are not always the same? The rumor I hear the > most often is that the uninstall.exe provided by the program > usually knows how to uninstall the program (and all of its > potentially disjunct files) better than the control panel uninstall > function, which may accidentally leave some distant files undeleted > (perhaps not a big issue with LilyPond, though). I would expect the control panel uninstall to call the program's uninstall. Could somebody look into this? As I said before, I'm not particularly interested in the windows instructions. But inconsistency bugs me; if you want to explain every single step, then make sure you explain every single step in every single Windows version. I suspect that this might result in isntructions which are long, confusing, and intimidating... but I leave the choice of this page up to windows users. (not necessarily Chip and Mark; other windows users are more than welcome to weigh in on this discussion) Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
