[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Windows start link on the desktop

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi Astron,

On 2012-08-15 at 01:22 +0200, Stefan Knorr wrote:

> > I'd like to ask you to reconsider the decision there ;-)
> 
> Sorry that you don't like the new default, though, if you look at my
> comment #4 in the bug, you'll probably see that I noted that "views vary
> wildly" on this issue...

Yes, I know :-)

> Here's my opinion again: it is not a great idea, since you usually need
> to know the administrator password (because the icon is installed once
> in a "All Users" folder [1]) and because we should try to
> respect/protect the desktop at the user's own space.

Luckily this is not the case - I've just tried, the user can remove the
icon from his / her desktop, ie. we should be fine.

> Firefox, to name one popular example, afaik doesn't (but it sets itself
> as the default browser). But it's true, lots of Windows software does
> it, even some where you'd ask yourself why you'd ever need that on your
> desktop (Quicktime comes to my mind).

I have just tried, and reinstalled my Firefox; 14.0.1 _does_ install the
desktop link, and does not even have the possibility to disable this
during the installation process.  The only checkbox that was there
during the "Standard" installation was whether Firefox should be the
default browser; checked 'yes' by default.

So I believe we behave more friendly than most, that we offer to disable
this during installation :-)

All the best,
Kendy