https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70635
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 70635
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: Installer ignores options, always puts a shortcut on
the desktop
Severity: major
Classification: Unclassified
OS: Windows (All)
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.1.2.3 release
Component: Installation
Product: LibreOffice
The options in the LibreOffice installer just plain don't work! The only thing
more frustrating than installers that put a dozen useless shortcuts everywhere
(desktop, quickstart, start menu above the programs level, etc) without asking
are installers that ask and then disregard my choice. I noticed this when
installing 4.1.0, I saw it again with 4.1.1 and now today upgrading to 4.1.2 it
happened yet again. Enough! Every single time I uncheck the option for an icon
on my desktop. Every single time I find a shortcut for LibreOffice on my
desktop after install. STOP IT! Are you assholes just trying to piss me off
putting the shortcut there, or are you just too fucking stupid to handle a
yes/no option at install time? It must be one of those two, but neither is
acceptable. If the former, then you are ignoring user choice and showing total
disrespect, which looks bad for the project. If it is the latter, that apparent
incompetence doesn't bring much faith in the quality of the software, which
again is not good for the project. To think, I'm entrusting the handling of
documents to some software written by people perhaps too damn stupid to handle
a simple checkbox in the installer. Egads!
While I'm at it, the upgrade portion of the installer is crap! If I'm doing an
upgrade install then it should be to the same location as the previous version.
The installer goes looking for prior versions, but only to delete them. If I
have an installation to a non-default path (i.e. perhaps C: is just for OS and
apps are installed on D: for easier recovery), then when I do the upgrade the
installer defaults not to existing path as it should but instead uses the
preset default. If I happen to forget to change that path during install, then
instead of a sensible in-place upgrade, the installer deletes everything from
the previous path and installs into it's default. Not only doesn't it do the
logical thing by default, but it fails to clean up properly. When it deletes
the old version, it deletes all files but leaves the directories in place. When
doing upgrade installs for minor versions, the default install path should
always be the existing installed path, no exceptions. The only case where it
makes sense to install to a different path would be when doing a major version
change to allow having two versions installed side by side e.g. 3.x and 4.0 so
as to allow using 3.x should some critical bug in 4.0 prevent something from
working as expected. Worse, not even that scenario works! Back when 4.0 came
out, I attempted to install to [path]\LibreOffice4 to keep it separate. Imagine
my surprise when the installer finishes and I find that [path]\LibreOffice is
an empty folder! There wasn't even a warning the previous version was going to
be removed. Fucking amateurs!
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