Risto Jääskeläinen wrote:
Supposing that quickstarter is working without any faults there is still a time stealing hiding in it. Those users who use OpenOffice only once and while lost a bit their working time every day they start their computer and not use use OpenOffice at that session.
Yes, but what we should focus on is how easy it is for affected users to change behavior. And here having Quickstarter enabled by default shows a clear benefit.
Users who have Quickstarter enabled and wish to disable it must simply right-click on the icon and uncheck "Load during system start-up". Very clear and easy. This is probably what saved us from thousands of reports of https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119102 : for once, users were able to figure out how to workaround a bug themselves (of course, disabling Quickstarter was just a workaround, but it worked).
Users who have Quickstarter disabled and wish to enable it must: know or imagine that it exists, open the Options, find it in the jungle of options (under "Memory", by the way)...
Since it is much simpler to disable than enable, and since most clueless users will benefit from having it enabled by default, I'd definitely keep it enabled. Especially now that the related bug is fixed.
Regards, Andrea.
