Bug 183529 - Installer does not remove start menu shortcuts after uninstall
Summary: Installer does not remove start menu shortcuts after uninstall
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kde-windows
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: installer (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDE-Windows
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Reported: 2009-02-07 08:54 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2009-06-15 11:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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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