On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:06 PM, RGB ES <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/3/5 Rob Weir <[email protected]>: >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:29 PM, RGB ES <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2012/3/5 Larry Gusaas <[email protected]>: >>>> Overwriting OOo and eliminating the extensions will create a huge howl from >>>> tons of users and create unnecessary extra work for the people providing >>>> user support. >>> >>> +1. I think that adding an "a" on the path of both, install folder and >>> user profile (something like ~/.aopenoffice.org/, or even shorter: >>> ~/.aoo/) will prevent some problems and confusion. >> >> Again, show me the bug report that has a reproducible case for AOO 3.4 >> overwriting OOo 3.3.0 profile data. I hope you agree that the lack of >> such a bug report makes this whole discussion rather bizarre, like >> maybe we have too many opinionated project members chasing after too >> few facts? >> >> -Rob > > My "few facts" comes from almost a decade providing support to > *normal* users that do not look at blogs, mailing lists, wikis... and > just install an update when they find it. But that is my personal > experience, it could be subjective... >
I'm not saying that requiring a reinstall of extensions is a great thing. I'm just saying that no one yet has suggested a technical alternative, and that complaining alone will be unlikely to change things. > BTW, according to WordNet "opinionated" means "narrow minded" which I > think is a little too much, don't you think? After all, I commented on > this topic only once... I would not have used that definition. Take it as you are providing opinions on the impact of a bug that no one has managed to actually report to BZ. So we have speculation rather than facts. Let's get the facts, OK? -Rob > > Regards > Ricardo
