Re: [libreoffice-users] poor default config path

On 09/14/2011 12:30 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Hmm, i just thought.  maybe this guide might help you change the path on your machine
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
> Just miss out the bits where it installs another version of LibreOffice!
>
> Something else i liked about the Arch install was the inclusion of OpenJdk6 and mozilla-common.  IOpenJdk7 
> has only come out in the last few days so it's a bit too recent to use.  You might not need the java runtime 
> at all.  I have started unticking it on the various works machines to help LO start-up faster and had no 
> problems so far.  It's good to have the OpenSource version available as a fall-back in case you do need java 
> tho even if it is still owned by Oracle.  I think for most distros the package/add-on to allow documents to 
> open in a web-browser is called "mozilla-libreoffice" and we would never guess it's different in 
> Arch so it's good to have that included as standard.  Both very small packages and including them neatly 
> side-steps a range of potential troubles :)
>
> The . in the front of the fodler-name only makes the folder hidden.  It doesn't really make all 
> that much difference except that you have to remember it when typing out the pathname of course.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)

I know it only makes it hidden. I'm seeing more now. 
/etc/libreoffice/bootstraprc contains the line:

UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.libreoffice/3

now I need to figure out where that $SYSUSERCONFIG comes from.

> --- 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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