X2Go Bug report logs - #225
when uninstalling x2goclient from windows, the .x2go folder remains

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Package: x2goclient; Maintainer for x2goclient is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goclient is src:x2goclient.

Reported by: Αλέξανδρος Τασίκας <alextasikas@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 16:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 224

Found in version 4.0.0.3

Done: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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tag #225 wontfix
close #225
thanks

Hi Stefann, Arnold, Αλέξανδρος,

On Do 30 Mai 2013 20:46:59 CEST Arnold Krille wrote:

> On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:23:51 +0200 Stefan Baur
> <newsgroups.mail2@stefanbaur.de> wrote:
>> Am 30.05.2013 18:46, schrieb Αλέξανδρος Τασίκας:
>> > Package: x2goclient
>> > Version: 4.0.0.3
>> >
>> > when uninstalling x2goclient, the .x2go folder which is in the user
>> > space (in windows-XP C:\Docs&Sets\username\.x2go)is not deleted!!!
>> > I think the uninstall process should delete folder also.
>> > (maybe related with Bug#224)
>> >
>>
>> Deleting stuff from user directories is a bad idea and should not be
>> done. Please think of multi-user setups on the same machine. A user
>> might have an individual copy of x2goclient.exe somewhere (there's no
>> requirement to install x2goclient, it can be run as a
>> portable/stand-alone application) and you'd delete that user's
>> settings with a system-wide purge of all "C:\Documents and
>> Settings\*\.x2go" directories. This is not what you want.
>
> Also think about multi-machine setups with central user directories
> and/or roaming profiles. Deleting x2go on one machine doesn't mean its
> gone on all machines the user-directory is accessed from.
>
> And deleting stuff from the users dirs is generally no good idea. Might
> be something is borked with the install, so the user deinstalls and
> reinstalls. That doesn't mean he want to loose all his settings and
> profiles for x2go...

Considering the two comments from Arnold and Stefan above, I will  
close this bug and tag it as ,,won't fix''.

Best,
Mike


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