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
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