Issue 11946 - [RFE] allow to install OOo for *all* users
Summary: [RFE] allow to install OOo for *all* users
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 11685
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.2
Hardware: Other Windows 2000
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bettina.haberer
QA Contact: issues@ui
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-03-01 17:07 UTC by magrawal
Modified: 2006-05-07 07:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---

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Screen capture of windows explorer and start -> programs in Windows 2000 shows that OpenOffice is not in start-> programs group (55.71 KB, image/jpeg)
2003-03-01 17:08 UTC, magrawal 		no flags Details
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Description magrawal 2003-03-01 17:07:57 UTC 
I have encountered this problem on 2 computers. If I install OpenOffice on a 


Windows 2000 computer while logged in as one user, I am unable to see OpenOffice 


in the program group when I login as a different user. This is quite 


inconvenient. I generally use my desktop while logged in as magrawal but 


sometimes I have to login as Administrator to work on my postgres databse and 


then I can't use Openoffice. I am attaching a screenshot of the fact that I can 


see the openoffice folder in Windows explorer but not in start-> programs.
Comment 1 magrawal 2003-03-01 17:08:59 UTC 
Created attachment 4949 [details]
Screen capture of windows explorer and start -> programs in Windows 2000 shows that OpenOffice is not in start-> programs group
Comment 2 Frank Schönheit 2003-03-06 13:34:31 UTC 
changing issue type to enhancement - what is requested here is
basically that OOo allows to install for _all_ users on a Win2000/XP
machine, instead of only for the current user.

changing title to express this better (hopefully :) - the old title is
somewhat misleading, IMO.

Adjusting priority to P4 (it never was a P2, anyway), given that a
network installation (setup /net) is a reasonable (and the intended)
"workaround" for the problem.
Comment 3 eric.savary 2003-04-16 15:31:29 UTC 
Set to "NEW"
Comment 4 thegoldenear 2003-04-26 16:40:06 UTC 
OOo's behaviour in this instance is normal for Windows applications -
creating a profile for each user only when they actually run the
application is how it should be done. however, other applications
create their profile transparently, where-as OOo makes a big fuss
about it and it is this that confuses people

a workaround for ease of use would be to offer at installation to
create an icon for the current user (%USERPROFILE%) or for all users
(%ALLUSERSPROFILE%)
Comment 5 mfedyk 2004-10-06 03:23:54 UTC 
This is a dup of issue 11685.

Depending on Issue 11685 until someone marks this as a dup.
Comment 6 stp 2006-05-07 07:39:01 UTC 
dupe

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 11685 ***
Comment 7 stp 2006-05-07 07:39:22 UTC 
closing