[rox-users] Zero Install

[Jonatan Liljedahl <than@ho...>]

I just tried out Zero install, and I was right: It's not something you'd
want to run with a 56k modem connection to the net! Especially since
there's no "cancel" button to stop transfers, and that the whole rox
desktop freezes while downloading something!
I just entered rox.sourceforge.net/apps and suddenly it started to
download some 500k PNG image (share/icons/Applications.png I think) and
I had to wait a couple of minutes before my desktop was responsive
again... =/

Nah... I'll wait until I get broadband sometime in the future, (If I
stop living out in the woods.. ;)

/Jonatan - [ http://kymatica.com ]

Re: [rox-users] Zero Install

[Thomas Leonard <tal00r@ec...>]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 01:10:42PM +0200, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> I just tried out Zero install, and I was right: It's not something you'd
> want to run with a 56k modem connection to the net! Especially since
> there's no "cancel" button to stop transfers,

Right click -> Cancel.

> I just entered rox.sourceforge.net/apps and suddenly it started to
> download some 500k PNG image (share/icons/Applications.png I think) and
> I had to wait a couple of minutes before my desktop was responsive
> again... =/

Yep, we grouped them all together to save lots of small downloads.
However, you only have to do the download once. In future, it's cached,
so it's much like downloading and installing a 500K application...


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