Hi Michael,
> Oh wow, that's really silly; honestly though I have no idea how it
> manages to be on by default for you :-) the code that does this is
> (pseudo-code) sfx2/source/appl/shutdownicon.cxx:
>
> bool ShutdownIcon::GetAutoStart()
> ..
> return fileExists ("~/.config/autostart/qstart.desktop")
>
> It's not that clear to me how it can possibly be finding that .desktop
> file there post 1st install; that is unless you have some other
> 'qstart.desktop' for some other program that is autostarted [ I guess
> it's not the world's most unique name ].
Well, what I by semi-purpose :) did not mention so far is that I did not
do a "real" installation, instead I just unpacked the RPMs. This is
similar to what Ingo recently introduced with the "archive format" of
the installation sets: A big zip just containing all files in the proper
structure, which can be extracted and run.
The fact that it's run at first start is probably caused by some higher
layers. At least my experience on Windows is similar: When you do an
administrative installation there (which effectively means: simply
unpack the installation set, very similar to what I've done on Linux),
then the quickstarter is enabled on first start, though it's not yet
part of the AutoStart group.
In short: There seems to be some higher-level configuration entry,
defaulted to true, which tells to run the quickstarter, and which hits
you when you do an "unpack installation". I suppose this is what I saw
on Linux, too.
> Any ideas ? what's in that directory ? and/or does it exist ? what are
> the permissions ?
Hmm. It's a link pointing to some other CWS' installation (which does
not exist anymore). Removing it (and my user data) gave me the
quickstarter, again, created a new link (to my current version), and now
the QS comes up whenever I start OOo.
Also, now the option in tools/Options works as expected. Hmm, no, not as
expected - from the wording, I would expect that the QS is started
immediately. Okay, like specified. Ooops. :-P
Anyway, seems the old link caused the problem. I suppose this is
something which more people might be bitten by: at least developers
doing 10 installations per day (or so), and those brave people always
trying the latest developer snapshot.
> could you open an issue?
Is "installation by unpacking" something you intend to support? Also,
how can I encounter/verify this issue now that we disabled it in normal
builds? :)
> an strace/truss of the
> process over attempting to re-enable the quick-starter would be most
> helpful; also OS wise - I guess this is Solaris - is that so ?
Linux (SuSE).
Ciao
Frank
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