> > > 11. When installing LyX the first time, and therefore also MiKTeX is > > installed the first time, the configure.py file should be run in a > console > > window. This is very important because the first installation will > install > > more than 50 LaTeX-packages and take approximately half an hour. In the > > console window the user can see that there is some progress. Without this > > information, many users will kill the install process because they think > it > > hung up. >
No console windows! Please! :-) An even better idea, if it is possible, is to capture the stdout/stderr of > this > and redirect it to a list box in the installer, possibly hidden behind a > "more > details" button. Until the "more details" button is clicked, a simple > warning > about the length of the process could be shown. > IMO, the annoying text should be hided by default, as usual in most installers. Progress bars are welcome. Even if the progress can't be predicted we can add a dummy one, just to avoid users from killing the installer. Cheers, --- Diego Queiroz
