I can see this being an issue, if a Java enviroment cause AOO to crash, this will cause unexpected crasshes just by 'viewing' the Configuration options.
Doing something for the user automatically is a very dangerous territory and possible exploit. On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 2:32 PM, RGB ES <rgb.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think there is already a bug report for this, but I cannot find it right > now. When you perform a new install with a new profile, under the menu > Options → OpenOffice → Java you have the "Use Java runtime environment" > checkbox selected, but *none* of the available java environments listed > below is checked: you need to explicitly click on the radio button to the > left of one of the java version. This confuse new users, specially if they > have only one java environment on their systems, because they do not > realize that there is a radio button there and think that the first > checkbox should be enough, not understanding why base or other java based > components/extensions do not work. See for example this thread on the > forum: > > http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=60830 > > Is it possible to make AOO automatically select one of the listed java > environments? Or at least to make more clear that no jvm is selected? > > Regards > Ricardo > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
