Hi,
On 10.01.2013 13:10, O.Felka wrote:
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.
I have found the corresponding code. I am currently having a deeper look.
Does anybody already have deeper knowledge in this area?
If yes, please share it.
Does somebody know, if the migration of installed extensions from OOo 2.x to OOo
3.x ever worked?
Thanks in advance,
Oliver.
