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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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