[Libreoffice] Serious bug on LO Windows installer

[Tor Lillqvist]

> Even worse: if you Uninstall LO and the only item on the All Users Desktop
> is the LO lnk, then the uninstaller nicely deletes the folder (which makes
> sense because it is empty).

I could reproduce this in a freshly installed WS2008R2, and thus the same presumably happens also on Windows 7 and older versions. The folder was indeed removed when LibreOffice rc3 was uninstalled.

(I didn't check whether the system and/or hidden attributes of the All Users's (or "Public", as it is called in Windows 7) Desktop were also changed already on installation or uninstallation of LibreOffice.)

But how common is it that the \Users\Public\Desktop folder *is* totally empty except for the LibreOffice shortcut? It normally contains at least a (hidden) desktop.ini file. Presumably only power users obsessed with "cleanliness" (like myself;) remove that desktop.ini file. (And normal users on a machine with some amount of history, sure have a lots of other shortcuts in the Public\Desktop folder, too, even if they don't have a desktop.ini there.)

Also, a user who actually has an empty Public\Desktop folder, probably takes care to un-tick the "create a start link on desktop" box in the installer, and in that case, when LibreOffice is uninstalled, there is no shortcut to be removed and the Desktop folder isn't removed either even if empty.

I  agree removing the folder is a wrong thing to do, a bug, but it hopefully happens only in rare cases.

And anyway, OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 from Oracle works the same way, this is not a new LibreOffice specific problem.

--tml