https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159663
Bug ID: 159663
Summary: Update of LO always rewrites the Registry entry in
Windows pointing to
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.6.4.1 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Installation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
If you create your own template in Writer and put it somewhere other than the
default path (C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\share\template\shellnew\soffice.odt)
and make it the default to use for creating a new text document directly from
Win Explorer (Right click - New - Text document), you need to change the value
of the registry key
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.odt\LibreOffice.WriterDocument.1\ShellNew -
FileName. There are 2 problems:
1. I think LO should make the registry change, not the user,
2. Although if you make this registry change, after each upgrade of LO the
registry key is rewritten to the default pat C:\Program
Files\LibreOffice\share\template\shellnew\soffice.odt, causing you not to use
your default template for creating a blank document in Win Explorer.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create your own template in Writer, saved outside the default directory
(which is (C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\share\template\shellnew\soffice.odt)
2. Make it default
3. Check the registry value FileName in
Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.odt\LibreOffice.WriterDocument.1\ShellNew - the
default path is kept. Try to create a new document in WinExplorer (Right click
- New - Text document)
3a. Change the path in Filename to the stored default template you have created
in Step 1. Now
3b. Update LO or run the same installation by using Repair function.
Actual Results:
Ad 3/ it will not be created from the new (own) default template located in
different directory than the default one.
Ad 3b/ original FileName value in registry key rewrites your own default
template path, youa have changed.
Expected Results:
Ad 3/- should be created from the new (own) default template.
Ad 3b/ she changed path of your default template should be kept.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
This was marked in Bug 139962 as resolved, but is not.
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