The best way is giving a user an option when installing the software, in this step,let user enable or disable it.
2012/7/20 Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> > 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<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. > -- * mailto: *[email protected] <https://google.com/profiles> <https://google.com/profiles>
