Rob Weir wrote:
Of course, there is more that we could do to be a well-integrated Windows desktop application. The best practices are outlined here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/hh749939
I have no idea on many of those, but there are a couple of items that I noticed:
- 5. Apps must support a clean, reversible installation: this would need some work if it means that, when overwriting (say) version 3.3, OpenOffice 3.4 (or 3.4.1, or 4.0, whatever) should allow to roll back to version 3.3 upon failed installation. Much would actually depend on how a "failed" installation is defined...
- 10.2 Your app must avoid starting automatically on startup: would this mean that the Quickstarter must be disabled by default, that it must be removed (this would be problematic) or that it can stay because (current bugs aside...) it doesn't actually start OpenOffice?
Still, with the large majority of OpenOffice users on Windows and User Experience becoming a medium-term priority for OpenOffice, it would be reasonable to prepare in order to be ready for Windows 8.
Regards, Andrea.
