355884 - Display dialog when Camino is run from its disk image.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

I downloaded the BBEdit 8.5 demo a few days ago, and I noticed that when it's run from its .dmg it presents a dialog instructing the user to copy BBEdit to their Applications folder (it still allows it to be run from the .dmg after dismissal, of course).

I think something like this in Camino would help cut down on the number of feedback/troubleshooting messages from people who run Camino from the .dmg by mistake.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Can we add a some way to suppress it altogether?

E.g., when trying to find regression windows, my usage is mount .dmg, accept the license, drag Camino to "Troubleshoot Camino" (which sets a CAMINO_PROFILE_DIR and then opens /Volumes/Camino/Camino.app)--or, if I need a fixed non-default set of prefs, setting the profiledir in a terminal window, mounting the .dmg, accept the license, typing the open command, and repeating  the last 3 steps.  After a couple go-rounds with "yet another annoying modal dialogue" interrupting and adding yet another click gets to be very annoying.

Most users (well, depending on what portion of our userbase the "I failed Mac 101" set is) will never notice, but for those of us who use running from the dmg as a time-saving feature, and use it often, it'll really become annoying.

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

How about making holding down alt while starting up suppress this warning?

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> How about making holding down alt while starting up suppress this warning?

That's "good" for a single-use case, but it also needs to be programmatically automatible, e.g., by an environment variable, for heavy QA/regression-hunting.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

M3InstallController ( http://www.mcubedsw.com/dev ) might be useful for this purpose, as might LetsMove ( http://github.com/potionfactory/LetsMove/ ). Both might require some modification to achieve what Smokey is looking for in comment 1, and I agree with him that we need some automation-compatible way to suppress any such dialog.

Or we could roll our own solution, but that hasn't gotten us much traction in three years :-p

Comment 5

[Stuart Morgan]

Yes, we should definitely look at those, and/or I should finally get around to open-sourcing code for this (which I've been meaning to do for a while, and probably will do anyway). We certainly don't want to re-invent the wheel here for no reason, since it's potentially tricky (e.g., can involve doing an auth prompt).

Comment 6

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]