[getting the dev list into the loop]
On 02/04/2013 12:39 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
On 02/01/2013 06:21 PM, Pedro wrote:
I just updated LO from 3.6.4.3 to 4.0 rc3
Thanks to the patch from Stephan Bergmann
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57061) some items are now
migrated to 4.0
Items migrated: User Data, View preferences (such as icon theme and size)
Items NOT migrated: Recent Document list, Extensions
Is this expected? Shouldn't it pick up all items so that you continue
from
where you left off?
I just updated <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57061#c27>,
comment 27 to " Not all personal data imported during install from /3
User Profile," with some rationale and details.
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 and
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6b522673373797bbf53d795d53e0ec45175a5d67>
'default config location has changed, look in old config dir when
migrating' enabled LO's migration code to migrate from an existing
~/.libreoffice/3 to a new ~/.config/libreoffice/3.
"Therefore, at least my assumption would have been that that migration
worked acceptably, or else (Linux) users would already have complained
when upgrading from old LO 3 versions (that used ~/.libreoffice/3) to
newer LO 3 versions (that used ~/.config/libreoffice/3) about settings
getting lost. However, re-checking that now, things like the list of
recently used documents indeed were not migrated back then, either.
Apparently nobody looked at the migration machinery in detail, whether
it works acceptably for migrating individual settings to a new LO 4 user
profile."
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?
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.
Stephan
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