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ravas

Sep 28, 2015; 7:40pm

Windows installer sends users to the donation page

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I suggest either changing it to another web page (maybe the announcement section of the forum),
or disabling this feature (my preference).

R. van Twisk

Sep 28, 2015; 7:44pm

Re: Windows installer sends users to the donation page

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We can send user's to http://librecad.org for now

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LordOfBikes

Sep 29, 2015; 8:41am

Re: Windows installer sends users to the donation page

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We can make the installer to detect already installed LC. Then first time users will be headed to the donation page and updater not.

Armin

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R. van Twisk

Sep 29, 2015; 8:48am

Re: Windows installer sends users to the donation page

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On Sep 29, 2015, at 10:41 AM, LordOfBikes [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

We can make the installer to detect already installed LC. Then first time users will be headed to the donation page and updater not.

Armin

Armin,

at this moment I have disabled the donation page.

So perhaps routing the user to a place where they can find additional info would be best for now.

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dxli

Sep 29, 2015; 3:29pm

Re: Windows installer sends users to the donation page

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I feel we should disable this feature:

1, it's only for win32;
2, many spamwares do the similar, open webpages at installation;

We should:

1, add more help links to the "Help" menu;
2, install the user manual PDF (from wiki), and link it from the Help manual (implementation needed).

R. van Twisk wrote

> On Sep 29, 2015, at 10:41 AM, LordOfBikes [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> We can make the installer to detect already installed LC. Then first time users will be headed to the donation page and updater not.
>
> Armin

Armin,

at this moment I have disabled the donation page.
So perhaps routing the user to a place where they can find additional info would be best for now.

Ries