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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 8 05:39:06 -0800 2006 ------- I opened an issue about this in issue 62883 (now marked a duplicate), but then I was pointed to this issue. I will therefore post comments here. If I may add some comments from a user's point of view: -To a user, I would guess that the "repair" thing is not their first thought. (It wasn't mine.) The first thought is, "why didn't OOo delete these files? We don't need them anymore." -In other words, unzipping the files on the Desktop and then leaving them there looks to the user like OOo didn't clean up after itself. Users like me are likely to delete the files themselves to free up space. Then, the "repair" option won't work AND it is a nusaince to the user to have to delete the installation files manually. -Unzipping the files elsewhere hides them from the user and is acceptable. But this can still start to use up drive space quickly if the user keeps installing new versions of OOo. This is especially true for QA volunteers who install the next release every couple of weeks. 80 MB is not a lot of space, but 80*10 = 800 MB is a full CD's worth. As a QA volunteer, I can easily accumulate that much space used in 4 months of OOo development releases. Maybe a solution would be to have the installer remove previous installation files? Maybe it already does this? I always delete them myself, so I don't know, but it seems like if the installation files might be anywhere, the installer wouldn't know where to delete old installation files from. -If repair is a concern, can OOo ask up-front where OOo itself will be installed (not just where the installation files will be unzipped), then unzip the installation files to a subdirectory of the target directory? Then the installation files are always available for repair and always in a standard location. Also, the user does not have to get the unsightly files off his/her desktop. -For example, first screen shows "Where would you like to install OpenOffice?" and has a target "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org\". Then, the installer unzips to "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org\Repair\" and runs setup from there. Setup then installs to "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org\" automatically, without asking the user a second time where the program should be installed. I am not a programmer, so I don't know how feasable this is to do. But it would be nice for the end user to not have to worry about it. -Alternatively, you could just make it optional for the user to delete the files after installation. For an visual representation of this, see my attachment to issue 62883. Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
