[Bug 725] JNLP applications will prompt for creating desktop shortcuts every time they are run

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=725

Toni Spets <toni.spets at iki.fi> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |toni.spets at iki.fi
           Severity|normal                      |major

--- Comment #3 from Toni Spets <toni.spets at iki.fi> ---
Still exists today in current hg.

This ends up in very bad user experience when launching Web Start applications.
The "Always allow" check box is grayed out so you can't even make an exception
for a single program.

As long as the icon is on the desktop (.desktop file exists), it should not
prompt. Added bonus points for caching the answer anyway so if someone just
does not want the icon it will remember it until the cache is cleared. I can't
from the top of my head confirm how Oracle handles this in their
implementation.

It's been over one and a half year since this UX bug was reported, seriously,
get this done. The reporter even made a patch!

I'm bumping this to 'major' because the very least someone notices this bug
exists and tells me I shouldn't touch priority. User experience is everything.
IcedTea looks really bad if it fails even in the most simple things that are
visible to the user.

This is coming from a Web Start developer who would really much like that
people who use OpenJDK with IcedTea as it is the default install for most Linux
distributions get a good out-of-box experience.

Please, fix this.

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