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General discussion (archive)Hmm anyone else notice the new GOG installer?(85 posts)(85 posts)
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Posted October 29, 2012
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Theta_Sigma: Good Idea here ya go...

edit: weird it won't let me post the images. :\ Guess I'll use tinypic...
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desnoscross: :P thanks, I was using png in stead of jpg, woops...

Allow Me.
Posted October 29, 2012
Why does it include Foxit Reader? Is it required for something with that game?
Posted October 29, 2012
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Nirth: Why does it include Foxit Reader? Is it required for something with that game?
Foxit Reader is a PDF reader :D
Posted October 29, 2012
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Nirth: Why does it include Foxit Reader? Is it required for something with that game?
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JudasIscariot: Foxit Reader is a PDF reader :D
I'm aware of that but why is it included? That could be viewed as bloatware. :/

Not that I mind the application itself, I use it.
Posted October 29, 2012
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Nirth: Why does it include Foxit Reader? Is it required for something with that game?
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JudasIscariot: Foxit Reader is a PDF reader :D
Why doesn't the installer also contain a web browser, an office suite, an im client minesweeper, notepad++, a media player, steam, the evolve client and paint.net?

Why stop at PDF readers? Come on GOG don't discriminate.
Posted October 29, 2012
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JudasIscariot: Foxit Reader is a PDF reader :D
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Nirth: I'm aware of that but why is it included? That could be viewed as bloatware. :/

Not that I mind the application itself, I use it.
It's included in case someone doesn't have a PDF reader. It's fairly optional so you don't have to install/use it if you don't want to :D
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JudasIscariot: Foxit Reader is a PDF reader :D
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TheJoe: Why doesn't the installer also contain a web browser, an office suite, an im client minesweeper, notepad++, a media player, steam, the evolve client and paint.net?

Why stop at PDF readers? Come on GOG don't discriminate.
Because we're installing an entire OS? :D
Post edited October 29, 2012 by JudasIscariot
Posted October 29, 2012
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JudasIscariot: Because we're installing an entire OS? :D
The user might not have an OS. Come on, think of us binary vagabonds!
Posted October 29, 2012
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Nirth: I'm aware of that but why is it included? That could be viewed as bloatware. :/

Not that I mind the application itself, I use it.
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JudasIscariot: It's included in case someone doesn't have a PDF reader. It's fairly optional so you don't have to install/use it if you don't want to :D
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TheJoe: Why doesn't the installer also contain a web browser, an office suite, an im client minesweeper, notepad++, a media player, steam, the evolve client and paint.net?

Why stop at PDF readers? Come on GOG don't discriminate.
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JudasIscariot: Because we're installing an entire OS? :D
gogOS? Sounds awesome, count me in for a copy! :D
Posted October 29, 2012
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JudasIscariot: It's included in case someone doesn't have a PDF reader. It's fairly optional so you don't have to install/use it if you don't want to :D
Any other applications that is going to be might be included in the future? :P

It doesn't really bug me as long as it's optional but it seems sudden.

BTW, why not Sumatra? It's 3 times as fast, I swear...

:-)
Posted October 29, 2012
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JudasIscariot: Because we're installing an entire OS? :D
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TheJoe: The user might not have an OS. Come on, think of us binary vagabonds!
If someone doesn't have an OS then I presume they have much more to worry about than a PDF reader :P
Posted October 29, 2012
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JudasIscariot: If someone doesn't have an OS then I presume they have much more to worry about than a PDF reader :P
Also, I might not have all the games in the catalogue. Could you include all of them in the Beneath a Steel Sky installer?
Posted October 29, 2012
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JudasIscariot: It's included in case someone doesn't have a PDF reader. It's fairly optional so you don't have to install/use it if you don't want to :D
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Nirth: Any other applications that is going to be might be included in the future? :P

It doesn't really bug me as long as it's optional but it seems sudden.

BTW, why not Sumatra? It's 3 times as fast, I swear...

:-)
The only things we include other than the optional reader is whatever a game requires to run i.e. Java for the first Edna & Harvey game. And again, we include that in case someone doesn't have Java installed or they have an older version than the game needs to run.

Feel free to poke around in our installers using innoextract as many users have done and see if you can find anything :D
Posted October 29, 2012
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Nirth: It doesn't really bug me as long as it's optional but it seems sudden.
They've been doing it since day one.
Posted October 29, 2012
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JudasIscariot: If someone doesn't have an OS then I presume they have much more to worry about than a PDF reader :P
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TheJoe: Also, I might not have all the games in the catalogue. Could you include all of them in the Beneath a Steel Sky installer?
Interesting idea but no :P
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JudasIscariot: It's included in case someone doesn't have a PDF reader. It's fairly optional so you don't have to install/use it if you don't want to :D
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Nirth: Any other applications that is going to be might be included in the future? :P

It doesn't really bug me as long as it's optional but it seems sudden.

BTW, why not Sumatra? It's 3 times as fast, I swear...[/b[

:-)
I don't know as I wasn't around as an employee in 2008, just a regular forum goer :D
Post edited October 29, 2012 by JudasIscariot
Posted October 29, 2012
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Gazoinks: Huh, interesting. Looks cleaner, but a bit bland.
I don't like it... It's... Generic I guess, I just love the rounded buttons and overall aspect of the old one.
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