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Bug 523038 - Evolution doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
Evolution doesn't match FreeDesktop directories specs
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
: 583293 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 599682
Blocks: 523057
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-17 20:13 UTC by antistress
Modified: 2010-10-25 02:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22



Description antistress 2008-03-17 20:13:38 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:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-20 00:32:44 UTC
Feel free to provide a patch that moves existing users' data over.
Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-20 00:47:22 UTC
Confirming, though.  It's a valid bug.
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2009-05-20 03:21:41 UTC
*** Bug 583293 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Mathieu Bridon 2010-10-24 21:19:58 UTC
Wasn't that fixed during the 2.32 cycle?
http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?h=gnome-2-32&id=e2830ed03a65810382399a061a106125233fa909
Comment 5 Matthew Barnes 2010-10-25 02:25:30 UTC
Yes, this is obsolete now.