Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 19:23 +0200, André Schnabel wrote:
> Am 15.10.2010 17:21, schrieb Michael Meeks:
> >     So - here is my suggestion ;-) hopefully it annoys everybody, and it is
> > two-fold.
..
> (no question on 1. - harden the code for migration)

> ...
> >     2. we continue to do automatic config migration since this is
> >        a commonly desired use-case
> >     *but*
> >        as we migrate the settings the first time, we write into the
> >        (original - ie. the old version)'s directory a stamp file
> >        that says "these have been imported"
> >     *and*
> >        if the same version is run again with the new settings
> >        directory removed (ie. someting went wrong); we prompt the
> >        user on the second time:
> >             "do you want to (re-)import settings from ABC install"
>
> Sounds like a reasonable compromise to me. Mechtilde?

        Ok - so, I just pushed this to master, and will cherry-pick to 3.3 in a
bit; I didn't add the prompting piece - so, we essentially do a one-shot
migration from the old settings; and if people want to re-do that they
need to remove the 'MIGRATED' file from their old settings directory
(hopefully that is somewhat possible).

        For post 3.3 - hopefully, we can have the dialog pop up - and it would
also be nice to have some graphical warning that we are about to restart
having done a settings migration, instead of the silent exit we have
now. I can't make myself use the non-layout dialog code though ;-) so -
must review Ricardo's new layout work next.

        HTH,

                Michael.

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