Re: [Evolution] where are the details and messages stored?

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 12:06 -0500, Dan Saint-Andre wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:25 +0000, evolution-list-request gnome org
> wrote:
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:08:45 -0400
> > From: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>
> > To: evolution-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable
> > Message-ID: <1332169725 24411 40 camel localhost localdomain>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > 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
>
> Thanks, Matthew !!
>
>      This seems like it will be an interesting read.  Now, how do I
> discover which apps
> and distros are subscribers to these practices?

You can go to the specified folders on your harddisk and take a look at
the subfolder names. :)
There is no "centralized" list of apps for this.

>      While I'm there, I'll look for other interesting documents, but
> can you suggest other
> places where one might find useful and similar readings?

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
is the canonical place and there might be some mailing list discussion
available via an internet search machine ("xdg directories" etc).
http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/data-storage.html.en
describes it specifically for Evolution...

andre
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