Many workarounds when debugging and troubleshooting suggest removing the profile directory to reset all parameters of the application. In this answer there is mention of LibreOffice 3.5.0 now using ~/.config/libreoffice instead of ~/.libreoffice.
Why did this change? Has this changed for all OSs or only GNU/Linux?
It did change because ~/.config is a not-so-new-anymore standard for configuration settings on linux: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec
And it did not change for Windows (although different versions of windows use different paths - see also http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile), and did not change for Mac OSX
Thank you!