Bug 154432

Summary:	Typical installation (update) changes my file icons without asking
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	davidhajjar
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	lo
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.5.1.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Attachments:	.doc icons

Description davidhajjar 2023-03-28 17:46:38 UTC

Description:
I don't know if it's a bug, or if I should make a complaint about Libreoffice's installation behabiour. I've updated Libreoffice with Typical installation option, and it has changed the icons if my files. My father needs the Office icons back to be able to identify the files. Libreoffice should have asked if I wanted to replace the icons.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Update Libreoffice
2.Chosse Typical installation
3.Find the file icons changed.

Actual Results:
Not apply

Expected Results:
Not apply


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
To ask if I want it. OR remember last choice (maybe I used Custom installation, I don't remember)

Comment 1 davidhajjar 2023-03-28 17:50:26 UTC

Created attachment 186268 [details]
.doc icons

Comment 2 steve 2023-03-29 07:39:48 UTC

LibreOffice 7.5 comes with new icons: https://news.itsfoss.com/libreoffice-7-5-release/

This is expected behavior. However the word icon suggests you have both LibreOffice and MS Office installed on your windows computer.

Not a windows user and I am not sure how to change the icons back to the MS Office icons. But that is not a LibreOffice issue but rather a windows issue. Found https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/how-to-assign-a-custom-icon-to-a-file-type but that covers custom icons which is not quite what we are looking for.

Comment 3 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-29 14:47:50 UTC

I'd also recommend checking what you default application is for certain filetypes.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-default-programs-in-windows-e5d82cad-17d1-c53b-3505-f10a32e1894d