Why not add a "Reset user profile" tab (perhaps on the TOOLS menu, near the "Spelling & grammar" tab) that invokes a routine to locate a user's Profile, rename it, and tell the user to do a Restart?
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 5:10 PM, elderdanlewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone renamed the user profile, restarted AOO,and then compared the > renamed profile with the newly created one? (There should be a difference, > but it would be rather time consuming to find any. There is the possibility > of more than one difference. ) > > Dan > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > Date:05/24/2015 3:40 AM (GMT-05:00) > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Spell check > > Martin Groenescheij wrote: > >> On 23 May 2015, at 5:36 pm, toki wrote: > >> The major reason for not fixing it, is that it is _not_ a reproducable > >> bug. There is no sequence of steps I can take, that produces the bug. > > Exactly. We had a variant of the bug that occurred upon installation and > profile migration from version 3.x; that one was fixed. These, much more > limited from the numbers we see, other occurrences are even harder to > track and diagnose. > > > add an option to reset the user profile from a toolbar. > > That has been the favorite option so far, together with an option for > resetting the profile when one (un)installs the program. You will find > the full discussions on the dev list, but technically the complexity is > that you can't delete the profile from a running OpenOffice (so this > would have to be scheduled for the next restart and coding it becomes > more complex) and that you (un)install the program system-wide, but your > profile is a per-user setting. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
