Am 10.01.2013 12:05, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann:
Hi,
From my point it is important to point out (and also discuss) that the
installation of a AOO 4.0 - our planned next major release - will not
migrate/use a user profile from a former installed AOO (or OOo) version.
This has been also mentioned in our blog "Your top questions answered",
answer to question 10 [1].
It is a consequence of the new version number - "4.0" - as the major
version number - "4" - is part of the folder/directory path to the user
profile.
But, it is already a consequence of the completed renaming from
"OpenOffice.org" to "Apache OpenOffice" as the productname (in a certain
form) is also part of the folder/directory path to the user profile -
see issue 121388.
We have a lot of trouble with the migration/usage of user profiles of
former installed OOo 3.x versions - unfortunately I could never
reproduce these problems and thus I could not work on a fix. Thus, not
migrate/use a user profile from former installed AOO (or OOo) versions
would solve these problems.
Let the discussion begin :-)
Ok!
I think it is a bad user experience to do nothing.
We have had a migration wizard for user settings (was it OOo 1.x to 2.x
or 2.x to 3.x?). This wizard offers to migrate user settings to the new
version.
It's a better experience and gives the chance to migrate these settings
which are supported or convert the configuration files to the supported
format of the new office version.
Groetjes,
Olaf
