[Libreoffice-qa] Poor migration of user profiles to LO 4

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 02/04/2013 02:04 PM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Stephan Bergmann píše v Po 04. 02. 2013 v 12:54 +0100:
>> Quoting <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57061#c27>:
>>
>> "In general, what parts of an old user profile are migrated is
>> controlled by configuration settings in the
>> /org.openoffice.Setup/Migration tree (see
>> officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu).  The data that is
>> present there is apparently mostly what had been there for the migration
>> from OOo 2 to OOo 3 already.  The reason why certain parts of a user
>> profile had been excluded from migration back than are probably lost to
>> history.
>>
>> "Note that this user profile migration code already kicked in on Linux
>> during the LO 3 timeframe, when
>> <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=9276f7d5740a28b342db2a9bcd8644ff2f4f5742>
>> 'fdo#32263' moved the location of the user profile from ~/.libreoffice/3
>> to ~/.config/libreoffice/3
>>
>> I'm not sure what our position should be on that.  Given that it didn't
>> work any better in the Linux case discussed above, do we consider this
>> good enough?  Or is it severe enough to consider it a blocker for 4.0.0?
>
> IMHO, it is not a blocker but it would be nice to improve it in the
> upcoming bugfix releases.

But note that such improvements in LO 4.0.x will only benefit users who 
didn't already install LO 4.0.0.

> I think that it is not a blocker because it partly works. It was good
> enough for Linux in the past and I am not aware of complaining users.

I guess <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57061> qualifies 
as one.

>> In any case, I'm personally not familiar enough with the various stuff
>> actually stored in the user profile (apart from the extension stuff, for
>> which I checked that it should be generally covered) to judge what to do
>> about it, so I would ask people who do know specifics about certain
>> parts of the user profile to step in.
>
> Is it mostly about modifying the include/exclude parts in
> officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu? Or do you think that
> some more extensive coding is necessary, please?

I would assume that it is indeed mostly about the former.

Stephan