Re: [Evolution] $HOME directory changed - Evolution could not start

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 22:36, Richard Bemrose wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 22:33, Not Zed wrote:
> > > For example:
> > >     <entry name="file____nfs_admin_rb3_evolution_local_Inbox" .../>
> > > Can Evolution use the $HOME environment variable instead of hard coded
> > > paths?
> >
> > Not currently.
> >
> > Some things might be easy to change, others aren't so easy because a lot
> > of things need to be able to access the whole filesystem.
>
> Hard coded paths in configuration file is a bad thing. Manually editing
> the config.xmldb is prone to mistake. We expect the take up of Evolution
> on our campus to be significant. As such, we could be inundated with
> user complaints when their home account moves.

Well sometimes you need full paths.

> Why can't Evolution use locate file paths that are relative to the
> ~/evolution/ directory?

Well, as i said above, and i'll repeat, it needs to also access paths
which are not relative to $HOME.