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List:       evolution
Subject:    Re: [Evolution] Regenerating addressbook.db
From:       Matthew Barnes <mbarnes () redhat ! com>
Date:       2010-12-17 17:48:49
Message-ID: 1292608129.2587.53.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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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

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