Re: [Evolution] Problem viewing calendars on multiple machines

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 11:53 -0400, Michael A. Gilchrist wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks to all of you for your input.
>
> I still, however, am searching for a simple solution that does not require 
> setting up an online service or the computers to be on the same LAN for two 
> basic reasons.
>
> First, I want to be able to have access to my calendar even if I'm not online. 
> Second, I also have a way of syncing file systems that works very well for me 
> and that I'm very comfortable with so I'd rather rely on that than develop a 
> new 'skill'.
>
> Is there any place where the environment variables evolution uses are listed 
> or, alternatively, a way of setting variables via commandline arguments.  This 
> would seem to be a very desirable and 'unix-y' ability.

Evo gets most of its configuration info from Gconf, which stores it in a
bunch of XML files under .gconf/apps/evolution/calendar. You could try
synching these, but be warned that it is probably a bad idea to do this
while Gconf or Evolution are running. I've adapted the following from
http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_transfer_all_my_Evolution_data_from_an_old_home_directory_to_a_new_home_directory.3F

On the source machine:

1) evolution --force-shutdown
2) gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution/calendar > my-cal-file.xml

Copy my-cal-file.xml to the target machine.

On the target machine you should probably log out of Gnome and log in at
a console, then:

1) gconftool-2 --load /apps/evolution/calendar < my-cal-file.xml

I've no idea if this will work.

poc