[tex-live] Is the TeX Live 2018 installer (for Windows) considerably slower than previous years

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 04:25:01PM +0100, Philip Taylor (RH-UoL) wrote:
> Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:07:00PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > > Hi Phil,
> > > 
> > > That was a decision taken by Siep in accordance with UI studies she
> > > took. I cannot comment on that.
> > This design allows a directory browser.
> > 
> > This matters especially for people with localized versions of
> > windows. For example, in explorer, the `Users' directory may be
> > represented as 'Gebruikers', and users may not be aware that that is
> > not the actual name. The browser alway returns the actual name.
> > 
> 
> Ah, interesting — thank you, Siep.  But there was no obvious way to invoke
> the directory browser; how should I have gone about that ?
> ** Phil.

That is what the Change... button under the C:\ component does.

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Siep Kroonenberg