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Resolution|INVALID |
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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 26 07:22:05 +0000
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While I appreciate the explanation of why the installation is now split between
two directories, that wasn't actually the part I was complaining about.
I will attempt to explain more clearly.
There are actually two issues here:
1) The installer does not allow you to specify precisely where the program is
installed.
Contrary to what "of" has said above, it's *not* possible to install to a
specific directory such as "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta". If you
change the installation directory from "C:\Program Files" to
"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta", the installation will actually be
split between
"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta\OpenOffice.org" and
"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta\OpenOffice.org 3".
The problem is that the "OpenOffice.org" and "OpenOffice.org 3" directories are
hardwired into the installer with no means provided to override them.
2) As I said, the fact that the installer shows "C:\Program Files" as the
installation directory is a problem in and of itself, as it misleadingly
indicates that the program is going to be installed directly into the
"Program Files" directory, while giving the user no indication of where the
program is *really* going to be installed.
In particular, there's no warning that part of the program is going to be
installed into "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org", which is likely to already
contain an earlier version of OpenOffice.
To sum up: the current 3.0 installation process gives the user too little
control over the installation location, is unnecesarily confusing (and outright
misleading), and is likely to leave the user with two different versions of
OpenOffice mixed up into the same subdirectory structure.
I can see some fairly obvious solutions to these problems, depending upon
whether some of the installed components are meant to be shared between multiple
programs, or whether they're all meant to be used only by this specific
installation of OpenOffice. (From the links provoded by "of", it appears that
the case is currently the latter, but is ultimately intended to be the former.)
If some of the installed components are meant to be shared between multiple
programs, then those shared components should automatically be placed in a
standardized location under "c:\Program Files\Common Files" while the user is
given the option of specifying the exact location of the program-specific files.
In other words, always put the Basis and URE directories under
"c:\Program Files\Common Files\OpenOffice.org" while using the user-specfied
installation directory as the "brand" directory, presumably with a default of
"C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3".
If, on the other hand, all the installed components are meant to be used only by
this specific installation of OpenOffice, then I see two possible solutions:
1) change the installation process so that the user is shown (and is able to
change) *both* installation directories individually, or
2) change the directory layout so that the Basis, URE, and brand directories are
all placed under a single directory, then make that shared parent directory the
official installation directory.
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