Re: [Evolution] Regenerating addressbook.db

[Les <hlhowell pacbell net>]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 08:01 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 07:46 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I don't understand what "Contacts doesn't quite handle the fact that
> > evolution's folder paths have changed in recent versions" means.
>
> I assume this means Contacts (the Pimlico app [1]) is still reading data
> from ~/.evolution, which is understandable since we only recently added
> functions to libedataserver [2] to obscure the location of Evolution's
> data and cache directories as part of the move to XDG base directories.
> Contacts probably has the old directories hard-coded.
>
> Matthew Barnes
I just have to ask: Why obscure the location of the data and cache?  

Regards,
Les H