Bug#712040: libreoffice dot dir lacks dot

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:20:28AM +0100, Zefram wrote:
> Well, that's what it empirically did for me.  Installed via apt-get,
> no manual intervention or configuration, no environment variables set
> specially for libreoffice.

Not here, as said.

> >UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/libreoffice/4
> 
> /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/bootstraprc contains the line
> 
> 	UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/libreoffice/3

sure, cut'n'pasted from my system which has a supported version from 
wheezy-backports installed, doesn't matter for the problem, though.

> >where SYSUSERCONFIG *is* /home/rene/.config here.
> 
> I do not have an environment variable by that name.  Trying out setting

Sure, it#s LO-internal.

> If that sort of setting works for you, maybe that's a v3 vs v4 difference.

Nah.

> That is, it uses ~/.config *if it already exists*, and otherwise just
> uses ~.  So its ultimate default is, as I found, to create files under
> ~/libreoffice.  Creating ~/.config for test purposes, empirically it does
> then get used: ~/.config/libreoffice is created rather than ~/libreoffice.

OK, that explains why it's so rerely seen. both KDE and GNOME create stuff under
.config and so it's there when LO first is ran -> no problem

Otherwise it can be a problem, yeah, I see...

I guess we should patch this to *always* use .config. Not something we can or should
do for wheezy, though.

Regards,

Rene