A. J. Raffles, not only that but streamlined look is something I bet would be useful. Also you could simply use "silent" mode to install bunch of games without even clicking on a button, how useful is that? I think it's good too.
the_fifth_horseman, yup, valid shortcuts are made too, it's the first thing I have done and it works quite well (especially with unique icon).
Another very useful thing I've found while poking around DOSBox command-line interface is multiple configuration file. As you know you can specify configuration file by adding -conf key. Cool feature is that you can add more -conf keys and upon loading DOSBox will merge them into one and process configuration. This way we can create mini-confs that contain only game-specific parameters and optimal settings, this mini-conf will be added to -conf key in shortcut. We can preserve user preferences such as viewmode (fullscreen or windowed, scaler settings and so on) while modifying only those that game specifically needs (cycles, cpu settings, soundcard settings, mount points and etc). In this light I think installer usefulness is quite obvious. With people here that can provide those game-specific .conf settings we can make this whole idea live.
Right now I'm coding generic installer script based on Albion installer with those features I've mentioned before. Most difficult part right now is to make it download latest DOSBox... :-) The rest aren't that difficult.
As for D-Fend profiles I'll have to dig it up too. If it's not too hard to implement I'll add that feature too.
Also I've asked Kosta to provide some graphic templates from website so I can recreate Abandonia style. Since graphics here composed of few colors they will also take less in installer. Besides I think it's cool and distinguishable (as opposed to those ugly warez-scene-like .NFOs and other stuff like that).
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