[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 #7 from Adam Domurad <adomurad at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> 
> I hadnt spotted that. 
> More importantly perhaps, 'web start' also downloads the app each time and
> does not respect that it may be cached. This uses unnecessary bandwidth and
> creates traffic. I had this confirmed a few days ago when I asked why my web
> start app. kept downloading each time. Temporarily I have switched to using
> Sun Java, but I too would prefer to go back to openjdk.

I'll look into it too, although I don't know how much time I'll have before the
new year.

> 
> I had considered if I could help out as lets face it, a lot of the work is
> carried out by [dare i say unpaid] contributors. The learning curve of
> iced-tea etc is so steep however for it to be a realistic proposition
> without assistance.

It's all relative, but the learning curve of icedtea-web is a lot more mild
than OpenJDK. icedtea-web is very JDK-neutral and 99% java itself.

As for unpaid contributors, I am thankfully paid to work on icedtea-web. That
being said you shouldn't feel bad for asking for assistance! And it'd be
greatly appreciated, the icedtea-web TODO list never seems to gets shorter :)

> 
> I wait with anticipation of all these things being brought into line and
> fully featured.

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