Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:00 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote:
> {rant}
> As it is, things keep changing so rapidly that it is nearly
> impossible to stay aware of what the conventions are. 
> $HOME/dot-something  files  and $HOME/dot-something.d folders were
> fine for decades as the convention for where "applications" kept their
> details. Now it seems that the details are being made subordinate to
> the desktop environment according to some awful logic.
> {/rant}

Actually it's all spelled out by a cross-desktop standard:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

The advantage being the base directories are relocatable by way of
environment variables, and disposable cache data versus configuration
files versus valuable user data stays cleanly separated.

Matthew Barnes