Hi Mathias,
Le 25 juil. 08 à 12:41, Mathias Bauer a écrit :
Hi,
I'm currently evaluating which name to choose for the user profile
of OpenOffice.org 3.
Currently the user profile is named
$SYSUSERCONFIG/OpenOffice.org-aqua/3 on Mac OSX
Yes, and this is a long story :
1) use a hidden directory is a bad user experiences the "average Mac
user", and we had to remove hidden preferences between 1.x and 2.x
2) the point has been being discussed several times, and it was
(common decision) decided to use a subdir for the major. Can find the
issue right now, but I can search.
3) the -aqua has been introduced when the X11 was still proposed to
the users. the idea, was to separate the preferences, because the
aqua version was not stable, and could cause garbage in the user
preferences folder.
It is very unfortunate that the names differ that much.
I'm not that surprised: nothing is like elswhere on Mac OS X :-)
This will make future code for migrating user data in OOo4 platform
dependent and so it should be justified. The additional "." on
unixoid systems is bearable,
but the different structure isn't.
If ever 4.x changes are compatibles with 3.x, why not remove the
major then ...
So I'm wondering whether the additional sub directory on Mac is
necessary or if the name we use on Windows would be acceptable on
Mac also.
I understand.
I also would like to drop the "-aqua" as for OOo3 there should be
no reason to support the X11 version anymore (at least not on the same
machine).
Oliver proposed the change during last IRC meeting, and did it
already (issue fixed in CWS native177)
=> see issue 77328 ( http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?
id=77328 ) :-)
We have the additional problem that we need to change the name so
that it differs from the profile created by the 3.0 Beta version.
So my proposals would be:
or (3)
$SYSUSERCONFIG/OpenOffice.org/3 on Mac and Windows
$SYSUSERCONFIG/.OpenOffice.org/3 on Linux/Solaris
I'm ok with $SYSUSERCONFIG/OpenOffice.org/3 on Mac and Windows
Comments, anyone?
Mox Soini, who helped a lot, can probably add a word. He's an User
Experience expert on Mac OS X and one of the porters who has the best
idea of what the Mac user wait ;-)
Mox what do you think ?
Regards,
Eric
P.S. : is it me, or the mail is scanned and lines are cut ? I
recently received identical mails -excepted lines are formatted
dirfferently- twice: Can someone explain me what happens ?
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