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The best DMG design
Here's a clever idea. I'll admit that I'm superficial enough to think more of a given application if its installer is on a well-designed disk image. AppZapper and Delicious Library immediately come to mind. While I simply admire them from afar, blogger Roustem Karimov is on a mission to find the best one. He has posted snapshots of several images to his blog, and he rates each in terms of appearance, how clearly information is presented and so on. Check it out, it's rather interesting.[Via The Apple Blog]
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Chris S said 4:44PM on 9-14-2006
Wouldn't the whole process be much easier if the DMG window did not automaticaly hide the Finder's sidebar which always has a quick link to the Applications folder? Is this a developer choice or an inherent property of DMGs?
That said, I am always happy when a developer chooses to put a link to the Apps folder in the DMG.
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Mascker said 4:53PM on 9-14-2006
"Is this a developer choice or an inherent property of DMGs?"
It's a developer choise
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D'Arcy Norman said 5:10PM on 9-14-2006
I vote for the old Marathon CD-ROMs. Long before disk images and embedded images, they used tiled folder icons with custom image icons arranged JUST right, to make it look like a full-window background image. It was really impressive back in the day. Of course, now anyone can make one easily...
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Catt said 9:04PM on 9-14-2006
Thanks for sharing that was informative.
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one1step1 said 10:59PM on 9-14-2006
Chris S.>
All you have to do to show the sidebar is hit the oval button in the right hand corner. Then you can simply drag the app to 'Applications' if you still have it in your sidebar.
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Chris S said 12:05PM on 9-15-2006
one1step1:
Yeah, that's what I usually do, but it just seems kinda backwards to tell someone to drag a file to the Applications folder - and then hide the sidebar that contains it.
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Leonard Nimrod said 2:00PM on 9-15-2006
I am amazed at how few DMGs don't contain a shortcut to the Applications folder. It's by far the easiest solution.
If you don't know what I'm talking about download Adium and check it out.
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Leonard Nimrod said 6:31PM on 9-17-2006
Here is one of many examples that use this format.
http://oase.uci.ru.nl/~bradaa/nerdnotes.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/adium-install.png
(my name is also a hyperlink to the example)
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