Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !]

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 18:51, Seth Nickell wrote:
> As Bastien has pointed out, we can probably auto-detect the need for
> most of this stuff. Detect an LCD? Try sub-pixel anti-aliasing. Detect a
> PCMCIA slot? Install PCMCIA software. Detect a battery, install modes
> for power saving. etc. Probably not super-important since its not a
> technical question (pretty much every user knows the difference between
> a laptop and a desktop), but its still one more question we could
> potentially save asking.
> 
> Just playing devil's advocate here :-)

On the other hand, we may not want to prompt users to
pop in our installation CD every time the hardware changes.
There might be benefit in painting with a slightly broader
brush.  In that case, if a user says, "Laptop install",
we might install various laptop-related stuff that isn't
necessarily currently detected.  This might involve checking
for how much free disk space is available.  If the machine
has a 25GB drive, we could probably install a few more odds
and ends to ease the use of the machine down the road.

BTW, this is just one way of looking at it.  I can see that
maybe we really do want to require the user to pop in the CD
when new devices are added.  There are pros and cons, either 
way.

	Miles