GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 227451
Have wombat/shell tell you when it's restoring your settings
Last modified: 2012-04-03 08:42:27 UTC
We get a fair number of emails to the Evolution list asking "Why, after I rm -rf'd ~/evolution, does it still remember my settings?" with the answer being that you have to kill the wombat. We could prevent this by having the shell somehow figure out if the wombat is restoring settings (not sure how easy it is for the wombat to determine this, but the shell end would just be adding an IDL function I assume) and if so, pop up a dialog that says something like: "Evolution is restoring your configuration settings. To completely erase them, exit evolution, remove the directory ~/evolution, and then run the shell command 'killev'"
Now that a good amount of settings are kept in gconf this becomes more difficult. Waiting for a decision from desing team.
err...not cool. evolution now uses ~/.evolution for the data, ~/.gconf/apps/evolution for the preferences/accounts and ~/.gnome_private for the passwords. ...so NOTABUG / WONTFIX? anyway, in order to destroy the UI component (as discussed with jpr, dobey, and nags), changing component to the component of the assignee. adding UI keyword.
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well, still valid in some kind of way. but perhaps this should be part of the FAQ instead.
My vote would be to move the XML blobs out of GConf and put them under ~/.evolution, at least until GNOME gets a decent configuration system. Leaving this open for now since I still see questions about it on IRC.
Would be fixed by bug 635379 (see comment 9), hence closing as dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 635379 ***