Issue 121949

Summary:	SYSUSERCONFIG should default to $HOME/.config and not to $HOME
Product:	General	Reporter:	Andrea Pescetti <pescetti>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	arielch, ccheney, issues
Version:	4.0.0-dev
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
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Description Andrea Pescetti 2013-03-24 16:05:57 UTC

As reported by Ariel in
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121914#c4
we have an incorrect (as per Freedesktop specifications) default setting for SYSUSERCONFIG when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set. Full explanation follows, for convenience.

We would expect $SYSUSERCONFIG to mean $HOME/.config .
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/sal/osl/unx/security.c?revision=1303378&view=markup#l795

795 	static sal_Bool SAL_CALL osl_psz_getConfigDir(oslSecurity Security, sal_Char* pszDirectory, sal_uInt32 nMax)
796 	{
797 	sal_Char *pStr = getenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME");
798 	
799 	if ((pStr == NULL) || (strlen(pStr) == 0) ||
800 	(access(pStr, 0) != 0))
801 	return (osl_psz_getHomeDir(Security, pszDirectory, nMax));
802 	
803 	strncpy(pszDirectory, pStr, nMax);
804 	return sal_True;
805 	}

the code is getting the value from XDG_CONFIG_HOME; if it is unset or empty, then it resolves to $HOME.

But the freedesktop specification says:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which user specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should be used."

It should resolve to $HOME/.config

Comment 1 Ariel Constenla-Haile 2013-03-25 19:05:48 UTC

If someone wants to play with this, you have to:

- open a terminal
- see if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set:

]$ echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

if nothing is echoed, then it is unset.

- if unset, export it so that it points to $HOME/.config:

]$ export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config

- then launch AOO from this terminal:

]$ /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

Go to the menu Tools - Options... - OpenOffice.org - Paths. It should show the user paths pointing to $HOME/.config

So far everything seems to work.
The problem I see is the naming:

$HOME/.config/.openoffice.org/3/user

a) a hidden folder inside a hidden folder does not make sense
b) too many folders: 
1) .openoffice, 
2) the major version 3, 
3) user

I wonder if the 3/user is needed at all. If you start AOO with the -env:UserInstallation switch pointing to a folder, it only writes into that folder; so why this "user" folder inside ".openoffice.org/3/" ?

In short, if we choose this approach, we should simplify it (if possible); something like

$HOME/.config/openoffice4

Comment 2 Ariel Constenla-Haile 2013-03-28 12:44:58 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I wonder if the 3/user is needed at all. 

Start OpenOffice, then


]$ ls -a ~/.openoffice.org/3/
.  ..  .lock  user

The user profile is locked with a file called .lock
So far this is the only use I've found for having this directory structure.

Comment 3 Edwin Sharp 2014-01-19 17:02:17 UTC

*** Issue 87678 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***