[Bug 48597] New: wine uninstaller does not update list of installed apps after using the "Install" button
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48597 Bug ID: 48597 Summary: wine uninstaller does not update list of installed apps after using the "Install" button Product: Wine Version: 5.1 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: programs Assignee: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org Reporter: reinhold.hoffmann(a)hotmail.com Distribution: --- Created attachment 66433 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=66433 screenshot of uninstaller to demonstrate the issue For clarification see attachement The wine uninstaller offers to uninstall and install Windows apps. An uninstallation can be initiated by the button "Change/Remove" (in German "Ändern/Entfernen"). The list of installed apps is immediately updated and the removed app does not show up in the list any longer. But when installing an app through the button "Install.." (in German "Installieren")- see attachment - the Windows app successfully installs but the list is not updated immediately and the newly installed app does not show up. Only after closing the uninstaller program and re-launching the uninstaller program again, the new app shows up in the list of the installed apps. This is inconsistent compared to removing an app and confusing. In particular a native user who is not an expert may be very confused because he/she does not immediately sees his/her newly installed app. He may try again which may create real issues. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48597 --- Comment #1 from Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead(a)gmail.com> --- When installing applet simply executes whatever was selected in open dialog, and does not wait for anything, nor does it update the list. Uninstalling is blocking, and after process terminates list is always updated. I'm not sure how important this is, i.e. how many people actually use this dialog to install things. We could probably respond to registry change notifications, or something like that, and unblock UI in both cases. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48597 Reinhold <reinhold.hoffmann(a)hotmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS|Linux |Mac OS X --- Comment #2 from Reinhold <reinhold.hoffmann(a)hotmail.com> --- Thx for the immediate response. I agree that an installation this way is unusual for Linux because for Linux the file association for msi files is properly set and by clicking in the Data Manager to an msi file the Wine installer starts. But we use it for MAC OS X. We have found that file association in the Mac Finder is always an issue. If file association in the Mac Finder is not correctly set for whatever reasons, a typical Mac user gives up and says "does not work". We have identified that this uninstaller program with this Install button is the best way for a typical Mac user to install a Windows msi file for Wine on a Mac. After hitting the Install button the default folder setting shows the user's home directory. The only task a Mac user needs to do is to navigate to the Downloads folder and ONLY the msi or other Windows files are presented. A Mac user is very familiar with this process. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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