Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Andrea Vai <andrea vai unipv it>]

Il giorno mer, 09/09/2015 alle 00.13 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:17 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> > > As has been said repeatedly, the "backup" command in Evo is not
> > > intended for periodic backups but for when you need to move your
> > Evo
> > > installation to another machine.
> >
> > If the Evolution developers are reading this I'd like to point out
> > (again) that expecting people to remember and use an obscure,
> > application-specific backup feature is unrealistic.
>
> Imagine for a moment that the commands weren't called "backup" and
> "restore", but (say) "pack" and "unpack". See what I mean? They have
> nothing to do with backups as that term is normally understood. In 
> that
> light, the only obscure thing about them is their name, which as 
> I've
> said I think should be changed.

I was also wondering about a better name... what about "Export 
Evolution data" and "Import Evolution data"? Despite they would be 
similar to the below "Import..." menu item, I think that they would 
be  clearly understood as different things (evo vs external data)

Bye,
Andrea

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