40865 - Users50 dir one level to high

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6464

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect, P3)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Reproduce:
1. Use installer and choose "c:\apps\mozilla" as install dir.

Actual result:
A dir "c:\apps\Users50" is created.

Expected result:
The installer lets me choose a path to the Users dir, defaulting to either a
subdir of the install dir (e.g. "c:\apps\mozilla\Users50" in the example above)
or a subdir of the Documents folder.

Additional comments:
See bug 21543 and bug 16673. I still don't see, *why*.

The expectation is that *everything* of that app goes to either to the paths I
chose, the WINDIR hierarchy or Documents. Installing something anywhere else is
bad behaviour, just like sitting in your neighbors garden.

The problem is very real:
When I ran Windows, I had a perfectly layed out filesystem. I sometimes really
had to manually browse the application dirs. The fact that the users dir is
installed on the same level like the app dir I specified messes everything up.
It gives e.g. a tree like:

Comm
+-WWW
| +-Communicator
| +-Mozilla
| +-MSIE
| +-Opera
| +-Users50
...

I see the fact that testers need to keep several builds with the same profiles.
Why can't they specify the Users50 dir in the installer (see above) or
config.ini?

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Nay possible discussion please to
<news://news.mozilla.org/[e-mail]> (n.p.m.xpinstall,
"Users50 dir one level to high").

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Bug 6464 is a decent solution.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6464 ***

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

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