Browser selection from Ubiquity

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, January 31, 2013 08:24:45 PM Rohan Garg wrote:
> > In this case, you still get rekonq if there's no network during install.
> 
> Yep, the same way you get a Kubuntu without multimedia codecs without a
> network.
> > I don't see any significant advantage for doing it during the install
> > versus making it easy to do post-install.  Why do you think it's better?
> 
> I'm open to suggestions on how to make it super easy for users to
> install another browser post-install. Especially since users migrating
> from Windows/OS X have no concept of 'packages' and even installing
> something like firefox can be daunting task. Personally, I'd expect
> them to go to firefox.com and download the sources instead of
> downloading the binary packages since that's what they're accustomed
> to.

How about putting the Firefox installer in the 'favorites' so that if someone 
can at least click on the K menu they'll see the familiar icon and (hopefully) 
click on it?

> > Also, if we start having application selection during install, what else
> > ends up there?  It's a slippery slope.
> 
> True. As always there are tradeoffs to be made here. But if you have a
> look around, people seem to be comfortable with dragon as their video
> player as compared to rekonq as their default browser ( just an
> example ).

There was a time where Kaffeine versus Dragon was just as controversial.

Scott K