Re: [libreoffice-projects] Work on the international 'box'

On 03/22/2011 04:54 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
> Hi drew, *,
>
> many thanks for bringing this up :o)).
>
> drew schrieb:
<snip>
> > What is the best way to help you with this particular project?
> Well Not shure what's the most effective way to achieve this.
>  From my point of view one starting point could be to translate the
> german box, which already got several features during five years of
> development. But finally this decision will be made by people doing the
> job.
>
> I'll try to be short in listing the features not seen at first glance:
>
> - display window:
> starting the former PrOOo-Box we had long and heavy discussions what
> should be the purpose of the CD's content. Result was a hybrid of easy
> installation medium and a display window allowing people to have a look
> at community's work - even if offline - much more an option in those
> days than nowadays.
>
> - easy installing:
> Particularly installing windows apps from a html UI using the system
> browser is a pain. Thus we decided the kmeleon browser to be delivered
> with the medium. It starts via autorun and provides a one click
> installation for LibO as well as for all other windows applications on
> the medium.  This can be choosen either by clicking the item in the html
> UI or by selecting from a menu containing all available win apps on the
> medium.
MS, as I recall, did a security cut on what that auto run option will 
currently allow.  Last time I heard, the Movie and Audio media were the 
only one left in the auto run security update.  I know that I can not 
get CDs to auto run and load up the splash screen of ones that I know 
worked last year or so.  So I may be right about that.

For Browser based installs, I know that many have removed the 
"download/run" option and just use the "download/save" one.  Security 
issues again.  The more secure your Windows computer is, the better.

So making an easy to install CD/DVD is not easy if you think about those 
who no longer have auto-run or download-run options available to them.

> The medium as well acts as installation source for deb based linux
> systems. It contains a repo with meta packages for easy
> (de-)installation choosing *one* package instead of fiddling with
> several packages particularly while deinstalling.
>
> - office equipment:
> To equip a complete office machine we also provide recent
> browsersoftware, and some other tools for desktop publishing and the
> like - all open source to show the power of free software world.
>
> - development:
> The source code and related tools are delivered to have a snapshot of
> the state of development at the time of release. This allows interested
> computer people to examine the code and as well a company to have full
> control over the software used in it's environment.
>
> I've put these lines in a wiki page where it's accessible for later use
> if needed:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-Box/Features
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gruß/regards


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