[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116142] Remove Quickstarter from Windows builds

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116142

--- Comment #6 from Michael Meeks <michael.meeks at collabora.com> ---
Hi Stuart; thanks for the summary - no dead horse flogging there, it's nice to
see it all written up in one place.

> Aside from the superfluous GUI menu of launchers in the Windows system
> tray, the only thing Quickstart "adds" is a continually running an
> instance of soffice.bin. No question that that running instance avoids
> some start up overhead--e.g. delay of an AntiVirus scan on initial
> LibreOffice launch, so leaving it running can improve response.
> But on modern desktop/laptop hardware it really is not necessary.

Yep - I think this is the major (and perhaps only) big win that is left here,
but it is rather a significant one I'm afraid - hiding that multi-second
latency and turning it into an apparently ~instant document load-time is a huge
win for people's workflow (wrt. not breaking the flow). Unfortunately quite a
lot of our users are cost conscious types who don't have modern hardware, are
on rotating disks etc.

> I'd like to see the obsolete GUI menu removed from Windows, as done for
> Linux builds (never implemented for OS X), and then some dev effort
> on refinement of the Windows shell Start Menu/Taskbar JumpList implementation. 

Certainly possible - if we have a good way to configure auto-starting it would
be great - although of course, we will still need a UI to enable and/or disable
this background memory hog =) I guess that could be in the Start Menu / Taskbar
Jumplist for Windows 7.

Problem is of course, that is Windows7+ only (we only just rid ourselves of XP
IIRC :-) and as yet not implemented: it would be good to file an enhancement
bug for that I guess (?)

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