[Libreoffice-qa] What are "Preferences" when moving from 3.x to 4.x?

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 02/04/2013 03:30 PM, Pedro wrote:
> Stephan Bergmann-2 wrote
>> Can you be more specific about extensions not being migrated?  In
>> general, they should be.
>
> I installed a Portuguese dictionary for All users under 3.6
> It doesn't show up on the Extension Manager list.

Ah, extensions installed for all users are never actively migrated 
across LO upgrades.  (Technically, an extension installed for all users 
manifests itself as data added to the share/uno_packages/ directory in a 
LO installation.  So if you upgrade LO versions by installing the new 
version into the same place as the old one, it will carry any extensions 
installed for all users across.  If like on Windows however the default 
installation path for LO 3.6 is something like C:\Program 
Files\LibreOffice 3.6 while that for LO 4.0 is C:\Program 
Files\LibreOffcie 4.0, the extensions installed for all users will 
effectively get lost.  This would imply that those extensions also 
effectively got lost when upgrading from, say, LO 3.5 to LO 3.6 on 
Windows; adding András on cc about that.)

If you want any changes here (and note that behavior is highly dependent 
on installation specifics, which in turn are highly platform-specifc -- 
like what shall happen if an admin on Mac dragged a 3.6 LibreOffice.app 
to /Applications/foo and now drags a 4.0 Libreoffice.app to 
/Applications/bar?), I guess it's best to file feature requests.

Stephan