Re: [Evolution] system upgrade wierdness (lost settings)

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 13:38, guenther wrote:
> I just installed Mandrake 9.1 and stumbled across some strange lost
> settings within Evo. Used Evo 1.2.3-ximian before, now 1.2.2-3mdk.
>
> I copied the old ~/evolution directory and most settings seem to be like
> before, except for some:
>
> (now: Mandrake 9.1, was: Mandrake 9.0 Evo by ximian)
>
> Tools / Settings / Composer Preferences /
>   Spell Checking
>     now: none
>     was: de_de, en_american
>   General / Shortcut Type
>     now: Microsoft
>     was: Emacs
>
> Tools / Settings / Font Preferences /
>   now: iso8859-1
>   was: iso8859-15
>
>
> Are those settings not supposed to be stored in my personal
> ~/evolution/config.xmldb file? How can they change?
>
> ...guenther

I think gnome-spell may use GConf.  Dunno about the others.  There are a
few things that aren't stored in ~/evolution.   Note for example that
the list of recently opened files is stored in ~/.gnome/Evolution,
/.gnome/evolution-mail-component, etc.

-Mark Gordon