Hi Alex,

while I absolutely share your feelings that packages should be
automatically installable, you might be interested in a little 
workaround
I did some months ago: It's the fabulous "Skip modal info dialogs" 
package
on SM, it even installs without popping up some menus... ;-)
This one tries to skip all menus with only one option.

Hope to be able to delete this "Eau de cologne" some day.

Cheers,

Markus

Am Sonntag, 07.03.04 um 21:45 Uhr schrieb Alexander Lazarević:

> I don't know how others feel about this, but I find it annoying while
> installing some packages from SqueakMap, that they present an "Loading
> package xyz. OK" popup before loading a prerequisite. If I start to 
> load a
> huge package with a long list of prerequisites and leave the room to 
> fetch a
> good cup of tea in the meantime in the hope that on my return I can 
> continue
> to work, I'm confronted with this ... popup that expected me to click 
> on OK
> minutes ago just to continue.
> I tend to share the opinion, that popup windows/menus with only one 
> possible
> choice are always useless (like in this case). I favour it much more if
> information about the installing process or hints about how to proceed 
> after
> the installation are placed in seperate windows and made visible after 
> the
> installation succeeded.
> Another thing that caught my eye was a question like "Would you like 
> to open
> XYZ now?" popping up after installation of the package XYZ. Now I have 
> to
> click on YES to see the window and NO if I don't want to see the 
> window. I
> would suggest to remove this popup completely. If I just installed the
> package XYZ chances are very very good that I also want to work with 
> that
> package and want to see the window right after installation. So the 
> user gets
> what he wants without any further ado (no popup, no clicks). In the 
> not so
> likely case, that the user does not want to see the window after
> installation, it's just a matter for the user to click on the window's 
> close
> button and that is as bad or as good as clicking on NO like before.
> I don't want to be nitpicking here, but these things sum up and just 
> get in
> the way.
>
> Alex
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