[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

--- Comment #6 from Toni Spets <toni.spets at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > 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!
> 
> Just to be clear, he's also an IcedTea hacker.
> 

Noticed that just after I commented. My bad.

> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm fine with it being major, but please note that our developer resources
> are pretty limited. You can see the IcedTea activity on
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/. The majority of the
> focus is on OpenJDK proper. 

I understand this, but as most of these UX bugs are trivial (at least *I* think
so) it just baffles me that something so visible to the end user is left broken
for over 1.5 years from the original bug report when the hacker even made a
patch for it.

> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Nice to see that webstart developers are looking at this :)
> 

Just to be clear, I'm not working for Oracle, I just deploy Web Start
applications as it has been a great choice for cross-platform stuff and IcedTea
is a great project to bring Web Start to more platforms and architectures than
Oracle could ever do.

> > 
> > Please, fix this.
> 
> I'll look into it sometime soon.

Thank you. Very much appreciated.

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