Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12990] New: Remember previous desktop icon and quick launc
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From: bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 01:27:06 +0000
Bug ID 12990
Summary Remember previous desktop icon and quick launch selections during upgrade.
Product Wireshark
Version 2.2.1
Hardware All
OS Windows 8.1
Status UNCONFIRMED
Severity Enhancement
Priority Low
Component Build process
Assignee bugzilla-admin@wireshark.org
Reporter alan.adams@novell.com 

Build Information:
Version 2.2.1 (v2.2.1-0-ga6fbd27 from master-2.2)

Copyright 1998-2016 Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> and contributors.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with Qt 5.6.1, with WinPcap (4_1_3), with GLib 2.42.0, with
zlib 1.2.8, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.12.0, with Lua 5.2.4, with GnuTLS
3.2.15, with Gcrypt 1.6.2, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, with QtMultimedia,
with AirPcap.

Running on 64-bit Windows 8.1, build 9600, with locale English_United
States.1252, with WinPcap version 4.1.3 (packet.dll version 4.1.0.2980), based
on libpcap version 1.0 branch 1_0_rel0b (20091008), with GnuTLS 3.2.15, with
Gcrypt 1.6.2, without AirPcap.
      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2820QM CPU @ 2.30GHz (with SSE4.2), with 8149MB of
physical memory.


Built using Microsoft Visual C++ 12.0 build 40629

Wireshark is Open Source Software released under the GNU General Public
License.

Check the man page and http://www.wireshark.org for more information.
--

This issue is not specific to any particular Wireshark version or Windows
version, although I am speaking from a Windows platform perspective.

When the Wireshark installer is running to upgrade from one version of
Wireshark to another, although most all other aspects of the existing Wireshark
installation are retained (filters, etc.) even though the previous version is
"uninstalled" before the new version is installed, we don't retain the user's
previous selection of "Should a desktop icon be created for V2", "Should a
quick launch icon be created for V2", "Should a desktop icon be created for
V1", "Should a desktop icon be created for V1", etc.

For users where the quick launch icons are never desireable, the fact the
Wireshark installer always defaults to having those selected (even during
upgrades, when the user's previous selections on these points could have been
known) means we have to keep re-selecting these options with every version.


Requesting that the desktop icon creation, quick launch icon creation, file
extension association and all other selections on this installer screen be made
part of the user configuration information that is saved when upgrading from
one Wireshark version to another.  So that the installer can present the user's
previously-selected actions during the next future upgrade.

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