GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 523038
Evolution doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
Last modified: 2010-10-25 02:25:30 UTC
Please describe the problem: its seems that Evolution in GNOME 2.22 (Ubuntu Hardy alpha 6) places its files in ~/.ecolution/ which doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs : The default for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is $HOME/.config, the default for $XDG_DATA_HOME is $HOME/.local/share. So all applications should look for those environment variables and use those default values if the variables are not set. See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec See also - http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data (main post and comment#8) - http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2007/01/10/fhs-extension-for-user-home-folders/ Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Feel free to provide a patch that moves existing users' data over.
Confirming, though. It's a valid bug.
*** Bug 583293 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Wasn't that fixed during the 2.32 cycle? http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=e2830ed03a65810382399a061a106125233fa909
Yes, this is obsolete now.