Thomas, I presume you've XDG_CONFIG_HOME set? http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html does not really mandate any specific naming scheme, I admit though that in this case, leaving out the dot looks slightly nicer. Would you be interested in having a go at a fix, shouldn't be too complicated?

XDG_CONFIG_HOME set here. True, apart from putting configs in XDG_CONFIG_HOME freedesktop.org does not set any more constraints but everybody uses non-dot folders after putting them in eg. .config. And ok, I will give it a shot and come back for help if needed.

The XDG user directory spec does not only mandate XDG_CONFIG_HOME, but also XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_CACHE_HOME, which could be quite interesting.

See also 
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?207-modify-your-application-to-use-xdg-folders

for some explanation of why this is important.

Created attachment 47277 [details]
a proposed fix

The attached archive contains a possible fix for this.
Please take a look at it.

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> Created an attachment (id=47277) [details]
> a proposed fix
> 
> The attached archive contains a possible fix for this.
> Please take a look at it.

could you please post the patch to the dev list ( for wider audience ), but.. before doing that some minor comments about the patch

a) I would use a define for "/.config" 
b) you should show where the magic '9' came from ( e.g. calculate it from the define ) in the code
c) it seems pointless doing the first access(pStr, 0) != 0) when you really want to run access on the value of pStr + "/.config" 

about the change common_brand.scp hmm well I am not sure at all about that ( in the case where XDG_blah blah blah ) is not used is it so nice to have the config go into a $HOME/libreoffice instead of $HOME/libreoffice?
 
NOTE: also this will affect windows where this XDGxxxx related directory specification does not apply

Noel, thanks a lot for your comment!

(In reply to comment #5)
> could you please post the patch to the dev list ( for wider audience ), but..
> before doing that some minor comments about the patch
> 
> a) I would use a define for "/.config" 
> b) you should show where the magic '9' came from ( e.g. calculate it from the
> define ) in the code
OK.

> c) it seems pointless doing the first access(pStr, 0) != 0) when you really
> want to run access on the value of pStr + "/.config" 
Sorry but I am not sure what you suggest, the first access(...) is for
the path specified with XDG_CONFIG_DATA, while the second one is for
HOME+"/.config", not for pStr+"/.config".

> 
> about the change common_brand.scp hmm well I am not sure at all about that ( in
> the case where XDG_blah blah blah ) is not used is it so nice to have the
> config go into a $HOME/libreoffice instead of $HOME/libreoffice?
> 
> NOTE: also this will affect windows where this XDGxxxx related directory
> specification does not apply
Exactly. I would like to ask that on the developer list.

Seems that patches was committed.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/ure/commit/?id=a6f56f70a4930d3f71bd9c9b90fdd0ba20e4da5f
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap/commit/?id=25bd2eec77ed774a37d1cddd0d72312e23d5e9fd

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