On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 01:01 -0800, Les wrote: > I just have to ask: Why obscure the location of the data and cache?
Because it's no one else's business where Evolution and E-D-S keeps its private data. Had we obscured those locations earlier, the transition from ~/.evolution to XDG base directories would have been far less disruptive to other applications. Also, the XDG base directory specification [1] allows you to customize those locations using environment variables, which is only possible if applications are using the functions I mentioned earlier and not hard- coding the directory paths themselves. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
