Re: [Evolution-hackers] User directory layout for 2.0

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 17:32 -0400, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > > First of all, we need to move the root directory to a hidden place; 
> > > so instead of storing everything under ~/evolution we should store
> > > everything under ~/.evolution.  (Yeah, finally. :-))
> > 
> > Having it configurable via an environmental variable is useful, not only
> > for testing multiple configurations, but also for multiple profiles.
> 
> Yeah, having it configurable is a plus.
> 
> There is one problem though...  The list of accounts is in GConf, and
> the list of available calendars and addressbook is going to be in GConf
> as well.  Those stay the same even if you run Evolution with a different
> EVOLUTION_DIRECTORY env variable; which makes the environment variable
> not that useful in the first place.
> 
> In particular, the list of calendars/addressbooks are going to have URIs
> to the files.  Even if we make the URIs relative to ~/.evolution, you'll
> still need the same set of calendars/addressbooks to be present in all
> the "profiles" for things to work properly.
> 
if we get Evo to manage the profiles instead of using environment vars,
it can just store the keys in GConf in .../profiles/default/..., thus
having a different configuration depending on the profile selected.

cheers