Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12990] Remember previous desktop icon and quick launch sel
Comment # 5
on bug 12990
from Alan Adams
(In reply to Alexis La Goutte from comment #4)
> Ok.. it is (normally) working if you don't uninstalled Wireshark...
> Can you try ?
Sure. Frankly I didn't even think that skipping the uninstall was optional,
but I do see the option to decline uninstallation when the Wireshark installer
prompts for it.
The 1.10.0 to 1.10.1 upgrade still didn't get the defaults right, even when
skipping the uninstallation. The Quick Launch Icon state /did/ reflect my
previous choice, but the Desktop Icon state did not, even though I could
clearly see the previous Wireshark icon still on my desktop. But issues with
1.10.x aren't really the focus here; I'm just saying what I observed from the
same environment tested earlier.
Using a clean Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 machine and installing
"Wireshark-win64-2.0.6.exe" as the initial version, I chose to create a Desktop
Icon for the v2 Wireshark, to not create a Quick Launch Icon for the v2
Wireshark, and to create only the Start Menu Item for the Legacy Wireshark.
During subsequent upgrade to "Wireshark-win64-2.2.1.exe" -- if I decline to
uninstall the previous version -- then the default selections for the v2
Wireshark icon options appear to be correct. But the Legacy Wireshark options
are not correct, and appear to want to do "exactly what we're doing for v2
Wireshark" rather than remembering the previous selections. I have to
de-select the unwanted Legacy Wireshark icon options again before proceeding.
Thanks for pointing out the "do not uninstall" path, since that wasn't a path I
had been observing or testing. But it appears there are issues both WITH and
WITHOUT uninstalling the previous Wireshark version, which prevent the
installer from remembering the current/previous installation icon choices.
I think that helps underscore the specific enhancement suggestion that was
made: "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."
As such -- if these selections were part of the user configuration files being
retained even during uninstallation -- the defaults would be correct during the
subsequent install, regardless of whether the user opted to uninstall the
current version like Wireshark prompted them to or not.
You are receiving this mail because:
- You are watching all bug changes.
