On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 22:36, Richard Bemrose wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 22:33, Not Zed wrote: > > > For example: > > > <entry name="file____nfs_admin_rb3_evolution_local_Inbox" .../> > > > Can Evolution use the $HOME environment variable instead of hard coded > > > paths? > > > > Not currently. > > > > Some things might be easy to change, others aren't so easy because a lot > > of things need to be able to access the whole filesystem. > > Hard coded paths in configuration file is a bad thing. Manually editing > the config.xmldb is prone to mistake. We expect the take up of Evolution > on our campus to be significant. As such, we could be inundated with > user complaints when their home account moves.
Well sometimes you need full paths. > Why can't Evolution use locate file paths that are relative to the > ~/evolution/ directory? Well, as i said above, and i'll repeat, it needs to also access paths which are not relative to $HOME. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
