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

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 13:10, guenther wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Speaking about URIs: They where really annoying every time accounts
> where moved.
> 
> I would suggest to drop the URI like it is and handle it always like
> this:
> $HOME/$EVOLUTION/suffix
> 
> 
> Doing it that way, moving accounts gets a whole lot easier. And as long
> as there are no different profiles, there is nothing more to struggle
> with... ;)

Yes, we must definitely avoid having absolute paths in the configuration
in 2.0.  That was a bad mistake in 1.x.

-- Ettore