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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Beta setup.exe, src checkbox and "new" column
In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Nov 2001 10:58:36 +1100."
<1004742965 DOT 9054 DOT 34 DOT camel AT lifelesswks>
Reply-To: rouilj AT ieee DOT org
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 08:40:44 -0500
From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj AT cs DOT umb DOT edu>

In message <1004742965 DOT 9054 DOT 34 DOT camel AT lifelesswks>,
Robert Collins writes:

>On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 02:24, John P. Rouillard wrote:
>> This sure beats changing the somewhat cryptic "Src?" header to
>> "Download Source".
>
>I think this will get the message across. How about a simpler version..
>
>You have selected to download the source code for this package.
>   If you only want to download the program and not the source, you
>   should click on the Action column entry to the left of the Src?
>   column. 
>Click OK to return to setup.exe.
>
>I think that will still communicate the idea, but requires less coding.

Sounds good. The one thing that I really think is necessary is that
the popup be displayed to the user only once. I could handle the popup
once per invocation of setup.exe, but once in the user's lifetime
would probably be better.  Otherwise it will really be a pain for
people who know what the Src checkbox is for and need to get the
source.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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