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  2. JDK-6237701

improve the jdk w/public jre user experience

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      Chet Hasse has expressed concern that the public jre part of the jdk installation is confusing. The jdk installer asks you to choose which components you want, and where you want to install them, and then later on, it asks you the same thing for the jre. This may confuse a lot of people who don't understand why they need to choose a location 2 times. We should somehow be more clear that the second dialog is where you want to install the public jre, which is separate from the jdk. We should consult our UE folks about this issue also. Here are some of Chet's suggestions:

      "- As you suggest, put the JRE option in a mandatory second dialog that
      comes up. In this dialog, you can choose to install the JRE and,
      if you want it, can choose the components that go into it.
      You can also choose the appropriate directory on that dialog.

      - Have an option in the first dialog that makes it clear that the
      JRE component is different from the rest of the JDK components.
      in the current dialog, it looks like the JRE is part of everything
      else, thus the installation directory would seem to apply to
      the JRE as well. If the question about the JRE were on a different
      pane of the dialog (maybe a checkbox on the final "Finished?"
      dialog?), then it would seem like more of a separate item and
      would thus make more sense to have that second dialog come up
      (with a different default install directory)."
      ###@###.### 2005-03-08 20:01:20 GMT

            billyh William Harnois
            billyh William Harnois
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