Re: [libreoffice-users] RE: My Pilcrow is gone. (Non printing Characters)

Hi :)
I think the uninstaller does have the option to also uninstall all user-profiles and everything but 
it's possibly not something that people would look for.  

There are substantial advantages to the way OpenSource programs user their user-profiles.  The 
different programs use the same pathnames so to back-up galleries, templates, extensions, 
configurations and all that you only need to copy 1 folder (and all it's sub-folders).  This can be 
used to move the profile onto a different machine, even a different OS, and/or to different users 
if you want to apply settings across a corporate system.  

Also with the proprietary way of reinstalling the program even if it does solve the problem it 
leaves no clear way of finding out exactly what caused the problem.  So it's likely to recurr.  
With the user-profile system you can often go back and pinpoint the cause which could lead to an 
obvious work-around.  

Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Sat, 26/11/11, Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] RE: My Pilcrow is gone. (Non printing Characters)
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Saturday, 26 November, 2011, 21:06
>
> Tom wrote
> > Reinstalling doesn't do the same thing with OpenSource
> products that it
> > tends to do with proprietary programs.  For an
> OpenSource program you only
> > need to rename the user-profile.  It's a lot less
> hassle.  
> >
>
> I couldn't disagree more. This is not a FLOSS
> characteristic. This is a
> limitation of OpenOffice/LibreOffice. A properly behaved
> uninstaller has an
> option to remove personal settings if the user so wishes.
> In fact this would
> solve many problems and save many user questions. I think
> the LO devs should
> seriously consider this. 
>
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