LibreOffice 4.1 and the Windows taskbar

users
#1

I've recently had the unenviable task of updating several computers running
Windows 7 and Windows 8 as either single or dual boots. One of the odd
things I've noticed is that after updating LO 4.0.4.2 to LO 4.1.0.4, I can
only fasten the LibO and Writer icons to the Windows taskbar. Previously
all the LibO programme icons could be fastened to the taskbar with a simple
right-click, but as I said, this seems no longer to be the case. Has anyone
else experienced this - admittedly relatively minor, but still irritating -
issue and is there any way to rectify it ? I've encountered no such
difficulty after updating LibO on either Linux Mint 15 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS,
but of course, GNU/Linux is GNU/Linux and Windows is Windows....

Henri

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
Good work and well done for getting through it!!  I keep putting it off so i tend to stick with x.x.4 releases to avoid needing to support the users any more than i really have to.  However the 4.1.0 does add a lot of better compatibility so i probably should do the same as you.

Sorry to hear about the problem there!  I don't know if anyone else has a good answer for that but i hope they do!
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

​As I've mentioned previously, Tom, I very much appreciate the work that
the developers have done on the latest version of LibO ; among other
things, it certainly seems to load more quickly, which is a great plus. As
a matter of fact, I had noticed the taskbar issue when updating some other
machines earlier, but hadn't thought to report it. Since, as I say, I've
seen it on several machines and not yet found one on which pinning other
icons than the LibO icon and that for writer works in 4.1.0.4, I must
assume that I'm not the only one to have encountered the problem. But it
would be interesting to hear if others can confirm it....

Henri

#4

Issues with Windows 7 and 8, Taskbar & Startmenu and Jump List
implementation has been cleaned up on the 4.1.1 and master builds. Should
have better results with the upcomming 4.1.1 release.

See FDO#35785 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35785> for
details.

Stuart

#5

​Thanks, Stuart ! I was a bit surprised to see this regression, given that,
as noted above. I didn't experience the problem using 4.0.4.2. In any event
I'm glad to hear that it's been resolved in 4.1.1, which given that an RC
has been released, can't be too far away....

Henri​