Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-11-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 19:23 +0200, André Schnabel wrote: > Am 15.10.2010 17:21, schrieb Michael Meeks: > > So - here is my suggestion ;-) hopefully it annoys everybody, and it is > > two-fold. .. > (no question on 1. - harden the code for migration) > ... > > 2. we continue to do automati

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michael Meeks wrote: > Speaking of which - I notice that neither us, nor up-stream register > the migrationoo3.uno.so - so the "migrate from 3.x" code is never > executed :-) we only migrate from 2.x - any ideas why that is ? > (Thorsten?). I will push a fix to enable that in scp2 over the we

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Micheal, Just two simple answers: Michael Meeks wrote (29-10-10 19:04) Speaking of which - I notice that neither us, nor up-stream register the migrationoo3.uno.so - so the "migrate from 3.x" code is never executed :-) we only migrate from 2.x - any ideas why that is ? When instal

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 19:23 +0200, André Schnabel wrote: > (no question on 1. - harden the code for migration) Speaking of which - I notice that neither us, nor up-stream register the migrationoo3.uno.so - so the "migrate from 3.x" code is never executed :-) we only migrate from

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-15 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Michael, Michael Meeks wrote (15-10-10 17:21) So - here is my suggestion ;-) hopefully it annoys everybody, and it is two-fold. 1. we trawl for broken configuration settings in the code, and work to harden the code against bad configurations so it at l

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-15 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 15.10.2010 17:21, schrieb Michael Meeks: So - here is my suggestion ;-) hopefully it annoys everybody, and it is two-fold. (no question on 1. - harden the code for migration) ... 2. we continue to do automatic config migration since this is a commonly desir

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Soo - I'm trying to understand and summarize where we are, and the basic problems so we can make a good decision; here are some of them that I see: A. Config migration is not 100% reliable, sometimes it gives you a broken config; if you remove your config - but

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-14 Thread Thorsten Behrens
André Schnabel wrote: > > well, this is surely not an easy decision to make - but there's > > definitely a way to have LibO use a clean user dir, if you need it: > > > > -env:UserInstallation=file:///path/to/config > > and this will prevent, that LibO will migrate any old userconfig > when this

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-14 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > > well, this is surely not an easy decision to make - but there's > definitely a way to have LibO use a clean user dir, if you need it: > > -env:UserInstallation=file:///path/to/config and this will prevent, that LibO will migrate any old userconfig when this path is used the first tim

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-14 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Mechtilde wrote: > please don't take any user information from older version without any > agreemaent of the user > > If you do so you haven't the possibilityy to start *office with a new > user directory e.g in case you destroy something yourself. > > If you don't want a dialog then create a use

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-13 Thread Mechtilde
Hello please don't take any user information from older version without any agreemaent of the user If you do so you haven't the possibilityy to start *office with a new user directory e.g in case you destroy something yourself. If you don't want a dialog then create a user directory with the def

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-13 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 14.10.2010 07:51, schrieb Mechtilde: please don't take any user information from older version without any agreemaent of the user I second this. If you do so you haven't the possibilityy to start *office with a new user directory e.g in case you destroy something yourself. Correct.

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-13 Thread Noel Power
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 15:07 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: > Would it be possible to add a non-modal / floating / dialog to > prompt > users to migrate / import their macros from an old version if it > hasn't > been previously imported, and we know that they have really been > editing / changi

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 03:33 -0600, Noel Power wrote: > > - problem is, the OOo code we inherit here has several bugs. Ah - fun :-) > I was about to add an Openoffice3 supported version but I see your > comments that you are removing 'Basic' anyway from the MigrationSteps, > did I get tha

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-12 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Noel Power wrote: > > Mechtilde thankfully reported a problem with old OOo 2.x user > > installations, which get migrated over to LibreOffice automatically > > - problem is, the OOo code we inherit here has several bugs. > Aha, coincidentally I was looking at something similar ( and found > myself

Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-12 Thread Noel Power
Hi Thorsten On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 03:40 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Hi, > > Mechtilde thankfully reported a problem with old OOo 2.x user > installations, which get migrated over to LibreOffice automatically > - problem is, the OOo code we inherit here has several bugs. Aha, coincidentally I

[Libreoffice] LibreOffice config migration

2010-10-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi, Mechtilde thankfully reported a problem with old OOo 2.x user installations, which get migrated over to LibreOffice automatically - problem is, the OOo code we inherit here has several bugs. So we talked a bit on IRC tonight, and we somehow figured it would be a good idea to keep migrating ba