Bob Estes wrote:
Richard Detwiler wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 12/04/2008, Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been thinking about the number of requests we get asking
"Where is
the program i installed?".
I'm wondering if the packaging team haven't got it backwards.
I wonder if it would be easier for those who don't want the icons
on the
desktop to delete them, rather than to perturb so many newbies that
can't find them. Isn't a set of Windows .ico files included anyway,
the
icons images do exist when you send them to the desktop.
I'm against the complexity of imposing another step in the install
wizard.
In Windows at least many (most?) installers ask the user if it
should put an
icon (a) on the desktop and (b) in the taskbar. They also ask if the
user
wants a folder in the Start>All Programs menu.
Having seen a few of those dialogues I'm sure it's easily configurable
within the "installer creation" procedure - whatever mechanism
generates the
MSI installer.
So, please add my vote.
I would also add my vote. As Harold points out, it's very customary
for nearly all Windows installers to ask whether the user wants a
desktop icon. It would be nice if OOo did the same thing. I'm not a
programmer so I don't know what's involved, but since this is done so
often with other applications, I wouldn't guess that it's at all
complicated. If someone checks things wrong and gets a desktop icon
when he/she didn't want one, it's a very simple matter to delete it.
I'll add my vote too. Plus, I found an interesting problem when I
installed v. 2.4. I have icons for the various OO.o modules in my
task bar, but when I installed 2.4 they no longer worked. I had to
delete them and make new shortcuts. This was not a real problem; just
an irritant. If the installation routine does not place shortcuts on
the desktop, it should at least delete any OO.o shortcuts that are
already there.
Short cuts are merely pointers to the executable. If you created your
own, how would the installer know to delete them? There is nothing that
ties the executable back to any icons anywhere.
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