[kubuntu] OpenOffice saves new documents in home, not Documents folder with non-English locale

[Pelládi Gábor]

I am using today's (2009-06-19) Ubuntu Karmic daily-live. OpenOffice offers to save new documents into my home folder, not my Documents folder.
1. Start a Live CD, select a language other than English at boot (e.g. Magyar or Deutsch)
2. Start OpenOffice Writer
3. Enter a letter
4. Press save
5. The document is saved by default in my home directory, not my Documents directory.
Expected result: Save my documents into the Documents folder.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you still have this problem with the current version in Karmic?

[Pelládi Gábor (pelladigabor)]

The situation is still the same, I tested it with Ubuntu Karmic 2009-09-10 daily live cd, which has openoffice 3.1.1.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you still have this problem with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid)? I can't reproduce this problem with the current version of Ubuntu.

[Pelládi Gábor (pelladigabor)]

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is working OK.
But in Kubuntu 10.04 it still saves a new document to home folder by default. I have chosen hungarian (magyar) language at boot.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Roman,

I think this a KDE integration issue.

Chris

[Roman Shtylman (shtylman)]

Home is the default save location for any locale (for kde integration). Works as designed as far as I can tell.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This is really a bug but I am not sure what is setting the directory yet. I couldn't find reference to the xdg stuff in fpicker so I am assuming its somewhere in framework. Will update you once I find what is setting it. It does work with both the gnome file dialog and the internal OOo file dialog.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Ugh no results on XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, so not sure what to grep for next.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

So this is where it is set in the options, not sure what code accesses it programmaticly.

08:53 < MechtiIde> calc I set it under "Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> path"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

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