On 3/28/2012 9:08 PM, Matthew Barnes wrote:
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 13:03 -0600, Jonathan Briggs wrote:I've seen a few times the claim that we ordinary users don't need to be able to read or modify Evolution's files or configuration. We can do it all via DBUS![citation needed] Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>:And again back in January, also by Adam. Huh. I guess it is just Adam. Seemed like more people. :-)IMNSHO accessing data through any method other than the appropriate API is bad. And since those APIs are available via D-Bus you can do so from just about any language or toolkit.People: stop trashing your home directories. Leave the dot files alone, they are meant to be managed by applications - not users. This should point you in the right direction: http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.4/data-storage.html.en Thank you for the link. But I actually *was* looking for the DBUS stuff because it would be useful stuff to know. ÂI suppose I can dig it out of the source code if no one has written any docs. |