Bug 183529

Summary:	Installer does not remove start menu shortcuts after uninstall
Product:	kde-windows	Reporter:	Jeremy Bicha <jbicha>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	KDE-Windows <kde-windows>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kraplax, ralf.habacker
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Jeremy Bicha 2009-02-07 08:54:07 UTC

Version:           0.9.5 (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                MS Windows
Installed from:    MS Windows

After uninstall, the shortcuts are still present in the Windows Start menu, but they don't work since the programs have been uninstalled.

Comment 1 Ralf Habacker 2009-06-14 23:28:05 UTC

Installer 0.9.5 has already support for uninstalling application icons by internal running kwinstartmenu --remove on the last page. Unfortunally at that executation time kwinstartmenu is already uninstalled, which let the installer fail. 

A manual workaround is to run kwinstartmenu --remove by hand before uninstalling. 

A fix of this issue would be to detect the start menu path of the installed kde release at an early stage and save it internal until the "complete uninstall" case is detected and the related path could be deleted completly. 
This requires an extended kwinstartmenu application with an additional parameter to retrieve the used start menu path.

Comment 2 Ralf Habacker 2009-06-15 09:11:20 UTC

This issue is fixed in svn and will be available in the next installer release 0.9.6 

Also an updated kdebase-runtime binary package with recent trunk source is required