Issue 2059 - hide the OpenOffice.org folder in user's home directory
Summary: hide the OpenOffice.org folder in user's home directory
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bettina.haberer
QA Contact: issues@ui
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Reported: 2001-10-29 17:12 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2006-09-27 21:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Unknown 2001-10-29 17:12:49 UTC 
All preferences folders in Linux are by convention stored in hidden directories (e.g., 
beginning with a dot).  However, OpenOffice does not hide its user-level config directory.  

Provided that the default My Documents directory is changed to the user's home directory 
(Issue 2058), OpenOffice should follow the standard convention and hide its config 
directory (by making it begin with a dot).  

I use Linux, but I suppose this is an issue for other UNIX-like systems as well.
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2001-10-30 16:03:55 UTC 
Reassigned to Thorsten.
Comment 2 thorsten.martens 2001-10-31 09:49:25 UTC 
Maybe worth for a change in our behaviour to show folders and files in the file-open dialog ?
Comment 3 falko.tesch 2002-01-02 10:37:53 UTC 
This issue is re-assigned to Christian Jansen for further evaluation.
Comment 4 christian.jansen 2002-01-03 13:08:03 UTC 
Has to be evaluated, but in general you are right.
Comment 5 christian.jansen 2003-01-28 13:43:38 UTC 
Reassigned to Bettina
Comment 6 ringerc 2003-09-01 13:28:37 UTC 
Red Hat has a patch in their version of OO.o 1.0.1 that changes the
install directory to ~/.openoffice, which sounds like what you
suggest. I think they also make sure that the open/save dialog never
defaults to a location inside ~/.openoffice .

This seems reasonable, though perhaps made an installer option.
Comment 7 mci 2005-09-28 19:08:40 UTC 
Hi,

I think we can close this issue now...
Comment 8 mci 2006-09-27 21:10:14 UTC 
hmmm, the Office (SO8PU3v2) doesn't show hidden files in the FileOpen-Dialog and
the user-level configuration folder is hidden...

I'm going to close this issue...
Comment 9 mci 2006-09-27 21:10:31 UTC 
closing...