Re: [Evolution] Running Evolution components outside the shell

[Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>]

> I've obtained the Evolution and associated Gnome stuff from CVS and compiled
> and installed them with no apparent problems. The Evolution shell comes up
> fine, with no apparent functionality to hooked up to it. From following the
> list for the last week or so, I gather that this is to be expected at this
> point.

No, when you start it up, it should give you a warning message, and
then an empty mail folder view.

> Not a problem. When I run the executables for the components directly,
> e.g., 'evolution-mail', things just sit there. No GUI, no console feedback,
> nothing.

None of the components create their own top-level windows. They need
to be run from inside the shell.

Try this:

        killall evolution
        evolution-mail
        [wait until your hard drive stops, and then wait a little more]
        evolution

If that works, then the problem is that the shell can't find the
components to launch them, which means that you need to reconfigure
with --sysconfdir=`gnome-config --sysconfdir` so it will install the
gnorba files into the right place.

-- Dan