On 12/15/10 7:45 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote:
James Greenidge wrote:
In the immortal words of Captain J.J. Adams "The damned thing's
invisible!", I have you to thank for locating the files in question
-- only visible in "show hidden files" mode! Like who'd ever know
that, and Why?? Wouldn't it make it a heck of a lot easier (not that
mucking around with CLI is anyway!) for the poor green user to
transfer their personalized defaults and bio between OOo versions by
keeping it out in the open? No wonder Billy isn't all that bothered
that OOo exists! Anyway, thanks a mint for your input Dan and Merry
Xmas!
Jim
I'm sending this off list directly to you. Back around OOo
version 2.0.0, (I think this was the first one), OOo made its folder
hidden in the /home/user/ folder hiddenfor Linux. I wondered why at
the time. But as I have used Linux more and more, I realized that this
was how Linux distributions did it. Selecting "Show hidden files" will
show many hidden folders for programs used by the user. So, its a
matter of understanding the structure of Linux more than OOo. The
location of the preset file folder follows the Linux tradition: using
the /etc/ and /init/ folders. The Linux version from the OOo website
uses the /opt/ folder to place its preset files. This too follows the
Linux tradition.
But this is no different than Windows versions nor Mac OS X. Each
one has a specific location that if very different from other
operating systems. I still have problems finding what I want because
the location is in the .../user/Library/Application Support/. This did
not make sense to me as a Linux user for several years. When I want to
delete a program for some reason, I have learned to drag it to the
Trash. But I have no idea of how many folders I have in the
Application Support folder containing files that I no longer need. But
this is a Mac thing. It can be as frustrating as you are finding Mint
Linux.
Suggestion: Learn the quirks of Mint Linux, and the frustration
level will drop tremendously. Hang in there, things will get better.
Dan
Thanks Dan. The only thing is that one shouldn't be a jedi geek to do
something this elementary! For me, the larger OOo marketing/public
relations/customer service question is -- doesn't it behoove OpenOffice
(or whatever it's cloned into now) to make things easier for novices and
the totally clueless lay-user to transfer their personal configs and
defaults between OOo versions? Lay non-geek/techie people using OOo
Windows with lengthy bio user data and several hundred custom colors who
want to move on to OOo Mac or OOo Mint or visa versa will think twice
and head back to Word and MS Office if they can't easily transfer their
OOo configs to other OOo versions. People on
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=130 and
https://answers.launchpad.net/ claim that it should take a good OOo
programmer less than fifteen minutes to whip up such a cross-platform
OOo config transfer script. It seems to this callow guy that'd be a good
way for OOo to reap more users who would otherwise be put off trying to
stay in the OOo fold -- at least you'd do so if you were really out to
make a profit.
Merry Xmas All!
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