Re: [tdf-discuss] Windows Install

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From: "Fridrich Strba" <fstrba@novell.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 10:30 AM
To: <discuss@documentfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Windows Install

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> Please, don't enter into political consideration of something that was
> just a bug. It was me that screwed it up and during the pre-announcement
> phase sprint, I forgot to regenerate the product IDs and thus LO had the
> product IDs of OOo.

I don't think NoOp wants to make politic, he just wants to use LibO and OOo.

> This is fixed in beta2

This is a great news. Thanks

> Cheers
>
> F.
>
> On 12/10/10 01:00, NoOp wrote:
> > LibO install in Windows currently follows the go-oo practice of removing
> > existing OOo installs (without warning). It can of course be installed
> > in parallel (see my thread "[libreoffice-users] [Windows] LibO in
> > parallel w/OOo?" on the users list, but that provides several distinct
> > disadvantages:
> >
> > 1. No system file association or icons.
> > 2. No menu items (user must create their own + desktop icon)
> > 3. Program file names are the same as OOo (soffice, scalc etc) so there
> > is no easy way to distinguish between _which_ soffice et al that you are
> > running.
> >
> > Given that LibO is a "fresh start", it would be nice if LibO can, in the
> > future, behave in a responsible manner on Windows installs and not trash
> > a user's version of OOo. After all, the user should have the freedom
> > (Libre?) of being able to have both OOo and LibO installed on their
> > system (in the same way one can on linux). I think that new (Windows)
> > users to LibO might get pretty upset when they find that the install has
> > trashed their OOo. I'm familiar with the issue of go-oo & Kami's
> > OxygenOffice version trashing OOo in the install process, but new
> > users/converts from OOo will not.
> >   Also recommend that the bins be changed from soffice to loffice etc.,
> > so that it's easy to determine which is which on the system.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I primarily use only linux, but I also use WinXP/7 for
> > testing OOo, and now LibO.
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