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By: how do you put a background image on a disk image? - MacNN Forums

how do you put a background image on a disk image? - MacNN Forums — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:31:19 +0000

[...] software that is very easy for users to install. I like the :adium" example on this page: Symphonious � I’ll Tell You Where You Can Drag Your Icon… I know how to make a disk image but how do you put a picture in the background? [...]

By: Adrian Sutton

Adrian Sutton — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:37:18 +0000

Jane,
Apple can’t control the installers other people make, but I don’t believe this problem is mentioned in their installer best practices so it’s probably worth filing a bug on that. It would be a shame for Apple to automatically apply the user’s default style to all DMG windows because it is simpler for users to allow developers to lay things out nicely and provide instructions on what to do - they just need to remember to make it easy to follow those instructions.

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:17:08 +0000

Hmm. I also blamed Apple. Close to sending them an email actually…

By: Symphonious » Stop With The Releases Already!

Symphonious » Stop With The Releases Already! — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:02:12 +0000

[...] Speaking of FireFox 2.0 - it's the latest member of my OS X installer hall of shame. This is what FireFox's dmg comes up looking like: [...]

By: Symphonious » Windows Installer Annoyances

Symphonious » Windows Installer Annoyances — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:52:55 +0000

[...] I think that covers most of the issues I've had. It makes me appreciate how nice OS X apps are to install, even if they do hide the applications folder. [...]

By: pete

pete — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:00:03 +0000

That’s interesting. Until now I had blamed Apple, not realising that it was the vendors who possessed the power to piss me off.