https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125744

--- Comment #2 from Vivien Ibiyemi <[email protected]> ---
Hi,
I’ve been trying to reproduce this issue but I have not succeeded in
replicating the error. Not being able to reproduce the issue, I have also tried
to investigate cases where the Option Window is not displayed when the user
double clicks on the OO desktop icon. I observe some occasion when OO does not
present the Option window when the user double clicks on the OO desktop icon.
I’m not sure if the cases are by design but I have added the information per
adventure they will provide some clue for more investigation or a decision on
the status of the issue.

Thanks.

Regards,

Vivien

Test Setup: Windows 7, 64bits, Open Office version: 4.1.2,4.1.0, 3.1.4

Scenario 1: Simulate recovery  failure:
1. Uninstall 4.1.2
2. Install 4.1.0
3. Simulate a scenario where the user had so many programs opened in the
Taskbar such that OO files are hidden from main task bar pane.
4. Open each of the OO files in the "New_Folder_Third" from the attachment.
5. Simulate a scenario where user types in new text and had to exit the program
without saving: Type some text. for example I typed: "hope this step can be
useful is helping to reproduce the issue. Hope this attempt works!"
6. Do a Ctrl+Alt+delete, select Start Taskbar Manager-> select any of the
listed OO files -> Select “End Task”
7. Delete the folder containing the files: "New Folder_Third". Copy the folder
to a USB and remove the USB from the computer before deleting.
10. Double click on OO desktop icon
11. OO displays a recovery dialogue box. Select start recovery. 

Observation: Recovery fails. 

12. Select next. 

Observation: OO opens untitled blank writer document. Each time the icon is
selected OO opens the existing untitled document. The option Window is not
Opened. However no error message.

13. Close the OO documents.
14. Double click on the icon. 
15. OO tries to do a recovery of all the document that could not be recovered.
16. Select Cancel. 
Observation: Untitled Writer document is Opened. 
17. Close the document without saving. 
18. Double click on the OO desktop icon.
19. The OpenOffice Option Window is Opened. Close the Window.
20. Copy the folder C:\Users\_ibirov\Desktop\New Folder_Third back to the
desktop.
21. Open the folder and open the OO files
22. Double click on the OO desktop icon.
Observation: The already opened Impress file is displayed. No indication that 2
impress files were open.
23. Close the Impress file and double click again on the OO desktop icon. 
Observation: The next file in the opening arrangement is presented. In this
case the WelcomeOODrawing.odg document. This happens irrespective of the above
steps. This happens all the time. 
21. Uninstall 4.1.0
22. Install 4.1.2
Repeat Steps 1 to 23 on OO 4.1.2.

Observation: same behavior as in the observations above were observed on 4.1.2. 
What I can conclude after further investigation is that each time a user has an
open office file open, if the user clicks on the OO desktop icon, the Window
presenting the OO file formats, Templates and Open folder are not opened.  
Not sure if this is by design but thinking about the user's expectation, the
users most likely expect to see the option Window instead of an already opened
file popping up whenever I double click on the desktop icon. 
This seem to be a reasonable expectation because gives a wider set of
possibilities and option to the use. And if compared to similar programs like
the Office tools, even web browsers, these programs initiates a new blank
document or new page when the desktop icon is doubled clicked. 


Scenario 2: Simulate user installed new OO version prior to the incident that
is reported in the bug report.

1. Create a folder called “New Folder” on the desktop.
2. Uninstall previous OO version. Note: I had 4.1.2 on my computer before.
3. Download  and install OO 4.1.2 from
http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html. Note: Make a note of the
location where the files are unpacked to when you download.
4. Select the option to create desktop icon during installation.
5. Click on the OO desktop icon when installation is completed.

Observation: No error message was observed. The OpenOffice window with the
following open office options: Text document, Spreadsheet, presentation,
Drawing, database, formula, Templates, Open buttons are displayed. Please see
attached Picture 1.

6.Click on each button to ensure that they lead to the next page of information
or that they open the selected option
7. In a descending order, click on each OO format that is displayed and Create
a document  from each format.Save the files in C:\Users\_ibirov\Desktop\New
Folder Note: The files that were created are in the New folder attachment. 
8. Navigate to the C:\Users\_ibirov\Desktop\New Folder and right click on each
file to assure that the OO format is listed in the Open with option.
Observation: No error message was observed. The relevant OO file format is
listed in the Open with drop down menu.

Scenario 3: Simulate user mistakenly deleted dll and executable files on OO
version 4.1.0

1. Manually delete the executable files and the dll files in the C:\Program
Files (x86)\OpenOffice 4\program
2. Restart the OO by double clicking on the OO desktop shortcut icon.
Observation: Open office could not be started. I believe this is expected.
3. Reinstall OO from the previously downloaded folder. Choose the repair
option.
4. Restart OO by double clicking on the OO desktop shortcut icon.

Observation: No error message is displayed. The OpenOffice window with the
following open office options: Text document, Spreadsheet, presentation,
Drawing, database, formula, Templates, Open buttons are displayed. Please see
attached Picture 1

Scenario 4: Simulate a scenario where user had an older version of OO: version
3.4.1
1. Uninstall OO 4.1.0 and install an older version: 3.4.1
2. Double click on the OO desktop shortcut icon.

Observation: The OpenOffice window with the following open office options: Text
document, Spreadsheet, presentation, Drawing, database, formula, Templates,
Open buttons are displayed. 

3. Copy the attached file folder called “Welcome” to a location on the
computer, I used the desktop.
4. Right click each file in “Welcome” folder and “Open with” the correct file
format from the drop down list.
5. Leave the files opened. 
6. Install 4.1.2 without Uninstalling OO version 3.4.1
7. When the page pops up that say create desktop icon and uninstall older
products, unselect uninstall older products. Select install.
8. Double click on the OO desktop shortcut icon.

Observation: No error message is displayed. The OpenOffice window with the
following open office options: Text document, Spreadsheet, presentation,
Drawing, database, formula, Templates, Open buttons are displayed. 

Scenario 5: Explore possibility that the user had two versions installed on the
computer
1. Navigate to C:\Users\_ibirov\Desktop\New Folder. Open the file: Welcome
Impress.odp,
2. OO alerts the user that the files are locked by another system and gave 
options to: a. open as read only or b. ignore own file locking and c. open the
document for editing. 
3. Select the ignore option. 
4. Add new text “I'm wondering about issue 125744, hope this step can be useful
is helping to reproduce the issue” the file without saving.
5. Repeat step 1 -4 for all the files in C:\Users\_ibirov\Desktop\New Folder 
6. Uninstall 3.1.4 
7. A dialogue box is displayed asking that OpenOffice.org 3.4.1 Quickstarter
and OpenOffice.org 3.4.1 should be exited during uninstall. Select OK.
8. Do a Ctrl+Alt+delete, select Start Taskbar Manager-> select any of the
listed OO files -> Select “End Task”
9. A dialogue box is displayed with the with the option to Save or Discard.
10. Shortly after the program not responding option was displayed. Select “End
the program”. Go back to execute uninstall again.
11. Uninstall OO 4.1.2 Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features
12. Then install 4.1.2 again. Select option to create desktop icon for OO.
Start OO by double clicking on the desktop icon. 
Observation: The user was informed about recovery of files. 
13. Select next.

Observation: files that were not saved are recovered with all the content in
place. 

14. Close the files by right clicking on the OO icon in the Taskbar pane (note:
icons indicate that more than one file is opened) and select close all windows. 
15. Select save for each of the files when prompted to “Save or Discard”.
Double click on OO desktop icon again to restart OO 4.1.2. 
Observation: The OO database is the only option that is shown. The page that
shows all open office format option was not presented. Select the x button to
Close the OO data base page. 

Observation: The option to save or Discard is presented. Select save. Double
click on OO desktop icon again to restart OO. 
Observation: The OpenOffice window with the following open office options: Text
document, Spreadsheet, presentation, Drawing, database, formula, Templates,
Open buttons are displayed. 

Scenario 6: Explore Other options for starting OO icon.
Since the user said he clicked on the desktop icon, my assumption was that he
doubled clicked on the OO desktop icon that was created during installation.
All the test above were done with a double click on the icon.
But since the user said he clicked, I reasoned that maybe it is necessary to
test other options of starting up open office that could be done with a click,
so I tested as below:
1. Right click the OO desktop icon. Select Pin to Taskbar.
2. Click on windows icon to go to start menu. Click on the OO icon.
Observation: The OO Window was displayed with all OO file format options and
templates including the Open button.
4. Right click the OO desktop icon. Select Pin to Start menu.
5. Click on windows icon to go to start menu. Click on the OO icon.
Observation: The OO Window was displayed with all OO file format options and
templates including the Open button.

Observation: The OpenOffice window with the following open office options: Text
document, Spreadsheet, presentation, Drawing, database, formula, Templates,
Open buttons are displayed. 

Scenario 7: Simulate Template download: 
1. Double click on OO desktop icon to start OO 4.1.2.
2. Select Template. Select “Get more templates online” and try to download
”Yamb game form”
Observation: New page is displayed with the option to download from sf and it
is possible to download.

Other observations during this test:
Each time I uninstall OO, if I try to open a word document, then I get the
popup saying "Window Installer" After some time another dialog box saying
"Microsoft Office professional Plus 2010. Please wait while Windows configures
Microsoft Office Professional." It seems Microsoft office is reinstalled. It it
after this that the word document opens. This happens even if I have already
opened word document.Office And then office is reinstalled. I was wondering
about this behavior and why Microsoft office has to be reinstalled.

Tester’s evaluation: A few thoughts on my mind after the above attempt are: 
There's a possibility that the user thinks that this issue could result in
actual loss of the user's document. Though the file recovery test that was
performed showed that OO recovers files correctly, I'm wondering if there could
be more possibilities to simulate erroneous removal of users' documents that
could force a recovery of lost document to fail apart from what I have
documented in this test. 

If user files are lost in the process of doing what the reporter of this issue
did, then apart from inconveniences of not displaying the full options in the
OO option window when the desktop icon is doubled clicked, this occurrence
might impact on the user's reliance on the quality of the OO software. 

However, since this behavior was observed on a older version of the OO
software, and there are new versions without any user complaint on the same
issue, it might be that the issue cannot be reproduced on the newer OO
software.

It will be quite useful if @ [email protected] can provide a step by step
information on how to replicate this issue. Providing Windows event log to see
if any strange behavior like a crash or any other abnormal behavior  was
observed before this issue. Windows event log.

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