Bug 1110101

Forgot to mention. I am running Fedora 20 KDE. With LibreOffice Version: 4.2.4.2
Build ID: 4.2.4.2-18.fc20

The quick-starter is fairly deprecated by now, but...

1) and it doesn't exist when you log out and log in ? (i.e. the quickstarter deliberately will exit automatically during an update if it is running because the instance of libreoffice has been uninstalled and replaced)
2) If you log into a GNOME session is it also missing ?

1. No, I don't think so. If I have LibreOffice running, it would keep running without problem. Once I exit and reopen LibreOffice, quick-starter will run if libreoffice-kde is not installed and it won't run if libreoffice-kde is installed.

2. I can't test GNOME session because I can't afford to install 100s of GNOME packages over my KDE install. I did test libreoffice-kde under i3 and it started alright and worked without any problem. That points the problem to the KDE.

I also tried running libreoffice --writer in terminal and enabled/disabled quick-starter but it didn't generate any error at all.

What do you by fairly deprecated? Is it unmaintained? Does upstream plan to remove the feature? LibreOffice being a big and slow piece of software getting rid of quick-starter sounds like a bad idea.

(In reply to Sudhir Khanger from comment #3)
> What do you by fairly deprecated? Is it unmaintained? Does upstream plan to
> remove the feature?

It has been disabled by default for many releases--from the very beginning, actually, unless I misremember. That has been >4 years. Nobody is actively working on it. In addition, it caused all kinds of libreoffice crashes on Fedora when the quickstarter was running during update of libreoffice and then used.

Are there any thoughts on removing this functionality altogether from LibreOffice? 

1. Willingly and knowingly shipping buggy code is not in good faith.
2. With KDE Plasma moving to KStatusNotifier, Unity moving to libappindicator, and Gnome moving to message tray, it is only going to provide bad user experience.

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