On 28-11-2014 17:16, Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:50 28/11/2014 +1100, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
Go to C:\Program Files\OpenOffice 4\program and copy the file
soffice.exe and paste on your desktop.
Aaargh! Please don't suggest such misuse of a computer and its files.
People reading a public mailing list shouldn't be advised to use such
bad practice.
In what way is this a bad practice?
Under any operating system, if you need a way to invoke a program from
the desktop, there is always a proper and sensible way to create a
shortcut.
The way I described doesn't copy the file it create a shortcut.
In any case, if you were to run a program from the desktop instead of
in its proper location, there is no guarantee that its necessary
components and so on will be found correctly.
When you install OpenOffice it creates a shortcut onto your desktop
(can't remember if it is optional)
Checking the properties of both shortcuts they are identical. So if
there is no guarantee that it can find
the necessary components then the installation script is wrong.
Brian Barker
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