[tex-live] Updates to new TL installer GUI
Zdenek Wagner
zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 22:19:44 CET 2018
po 26. 11. 2018 v 22:00 odesílatel Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> napsal:
>
> Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> > Some remarks:
> > 1. "Normal" box:
> > 1. IMHO, the box such as "Installation root", displayed as follows
> > (ascii art):
> > ┌────
> > │ /usr/local / texlive / 2018
> > │ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
> > │ | Browse... + | Change + | Toggle year +
> > │ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
> > └────
> > could be confusing, especially for beginners: this way of choosing
> > a directory is quite unusual.
> I would agree with that; the user should (IMHO ) (be able to) either
> type, or browse to, the desired location in a single dialogue box.
The problem is that any GUI (including Tk) is able to navigate to
existing directory only. If a user installs his/her first TL, then
/usr/local exists but /usr/local/texlive does not. If a standard
dialogue is used, a user must first type texlive to create
/usr/local/texlive, navigate to it, then type 2018 to create
/usr/local/texlive/2018 and then select it. Alternatively the standard
dialogue can be abandoned and a single text input used. If a user
types texlive/2018, the 2018 subdirectory can be created under
existing /usr/local/texlive or the whole directory structure can
directly be created in a single step (by calling mkpath) if there is
no /usr/local/texlive. I do not want to judge which approach is better
but a combination of these two will IMHO lead to higher confusion.
> Philip Taylor
>
Zdeněk Wagner
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