Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store

Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by wruza on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:55PM (#12648274)

>"Do you want to install this to the Applications folder?"

This is a sort of question that makes me hate windows. Do you want to browse files or play music? Do you want to uninstall program? Do you want to change that setting? You have unused icons, so I decided to install updates now, you can't stop me. Oh, come on!

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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by wlesieutre on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:46PM (#12648618)

There are a million ways it could be implemented, I didn't mean to suggest that's the only one.

For a more Mac-like method, make it a special Finder mode where instead of showing the directory contents, installer DMGs display a big icon of the app with an Install button under it.

If you really want to get at the files directly, right clicking in the DMG could give a "Show disk image contents" item similar to how app packages are handled. Right clicking on the big application icon would include an "Open" item to circumvent installation and execute from the disk image.

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