[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 132127] Exposing the Safe Mode dialog's guided actions for use directly in normal mode

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132127

--- Comment #3 from Telesto <telesto@surfxs.nl> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> Hard to imagine. Let's say you made the document background black and want
> to return to factory settings. What should happen? Restart the program,
> apply immediately, remember the reset until you restart the program? 
>
> Samuel, your input please.

A) Hard to imagine? There are quite a lot of bug reports with the advise to
reset the user profile. [See bug tracker or ask Xisco] Why should be so
cumbersome to go from say Help -> Restart to safe mode (while LibO seeming more
or less in a working state. LibO needs to run for Help -> Restart to safe mode
anyway)

B) Don't think a reset to factory setting is possible without a restart? And a
program without profile seems a bad idea. So reset to factory settings +
restart. Similar behavior as when changing in OpenGL mode/ Skia Vulkan etc.
And my vision is to make the (re-designed, bug 120269) settings recovery dialog
to be accessible (no need for a new one). [Where I also propagated, a profile
reset']. Alternative route: fresh profile, see D

C) And a factory reset is factory reset. Haven't seen a mobile phone with an
option to go to factory reset once (to test :-). 

I enter safe-mode (say Windows Safe mode) if LibreOffice doesn't launch or
crashes at launch etc. Say the direct shortcut on Windows; the in application
reference to safe-mode unconventional, IMHO

D) An option to change to a different profile? Is there a need for it? Maybe?
Firefox has a manager too. Could be an alternative route for backup. Create a
fresh profile; and leave the old one lingering around. With some migration
assistant to 'port' from one profile to another.
I personally don't switch profiles very often; in the sense of heaving multiple
configurations by default. Only when regular 'profile' appears to broken
somehow.

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