Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

Hi :)
I think it might be best to file a bug-report with Arch or Arch's tweaked LibreOffice.  

The .libreoffice is a standard across 'all' GNu&Linux distros.  I think for most distros that means 
the path is

/home/username/.libreoffice.org/3/user/

Arch seems to add an extra folder and then tweaks most apps/packages to drop their . that makes the 
folder a hidden folder.  I don't know why they don't do that for LibreOffice so the folder ends up 
being 


/home/username/.config/.libreoffice.org/3/user/

I really like they extra depth in Arch because both my /home and /home/username folders tend to get 
filled with tons of stuff that i have no idea about what it all does so it's trickier to find 
things i do want to access.  

So i think it would be awkward for TDF to maintain 2 versions of LibreOffice, one for all the other 
distros and another for Arch family.  I think the easiest place to do this would be in Arch 
somewhere.  I don't know tho.  What do you think would be best?
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Wed, 14/9/11, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27@0x01b.net> wrote:

From: Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27@0x01b.net>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2011, 18:20

On 09/14/2011 06:47 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Err, sorry, which platform are you on?  Is that Bsd?  It's not the path used in Gnu&Linux and i 
> dont remember it looking like that in Windows either although i could easily have missed that.
> Regards from
> Tom :)

My platform is Linux. Distribution is Arch. The build instructions are here: 
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/libreoffice

I don't see anything specifying the user config dir, so I assume what I have is 
the default.

> --- On Wed, 14/9/11, Matthew Monaco<dgbaley27@0x01b.net>  wrote:
>
> From: Matthew Monaco<dgbaley27@0x01b.net>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2011, 2:02
>
> Why is the default config located at ~/.config/.libreoffice?
>
> I appreciate it being under .config so as not to add to the clutter of my home directory, but is 
> the "." necessary? It's already in .config!
>
> ~/.config/libreoffice would do just fine.
>
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