On Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:55:01 +0200 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 01/10/2015 James Knott wrote: > > Regardless, in all the years I've been running OO (well over a decade), > > I have never, not once seen a registration screen. > > As others (and James too) guessed, this is surely the welcome screen. > That's the only place where we ask for name and initials. It is > displayed only on creation of a new profile (i.e., first installation > ever or upgrade from a very old version, 3.x). It does not send out any > data: it sets your local user profile, for settings that are only used > in the documents you create. As Andrea remarks, this "registration" screen is used to identify the local user to OpenOffice. It may happen that the same computer and version of OpenOffice are used within a household or an office by different users (such as husband, wife, children). Each user might have their own logon to the computer - perhaps for restrictions for the children, or different screen resolution/wallpaper/icon themes. As a result, each user is identified to OpenOffice by the "registration" screen (on first use) and their documents are shown (/File /Properties : General tab) as theirs. The information is internal to the computer and is not transmitted across the internet. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
