433660 - Installation disk image has fake symlink to the /Applications folder causing confusion

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 432840

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Jan Lehnardt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_2; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18
Build Identifier: 3.0a1 (2008050714)

The disk image Thunderbird/Shredder comes on makes the drag&drop installation on a Mac very simple. The only caveat is, that the background image contains an icon that leads a user to believe, that he can drop the Thunderbird icon onto it, to install it into the /Applications folder. Other applications do in fact provide a proper icon there that acts like a symlink to /Applications and allow a true drag&rop installation. With Shredder, users need to do one of the following: Open a new Finder window and move the Icon or click on the tic-tac button on the Finder window of the disk image to reveal its sidebar, that usually contains a link. This scenario is highly confusing at best.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download Thunderbird/Shredder
2.Open the disk image (or wait for MacOS X & your browser to do it for you
3.Drag the Thunderbird icon onto the greyed-out Applications icon
Actual Results:  
The Thunderbird icon now lies on top of the greyed-out Applications icon. No copying has happened

Expected Results:  
The Application should be an actual link to the /Applications folder to allow a one-step drag & drop installation from the disk image.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away until Aug 10)]

Should be bug 432840