On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 21:42 +0000, evolution-list-requ...@gnome.org
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> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:12:01 -0400
> From: Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org>
> To: evolution-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] evolution is not reliable
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> tgra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > after new installation evolution didn't recover
> >old data from backuped folders.
> >Created "*.tar.gz"-files didn't work.
>
{snip}
> I've puzzled by how often the where-is-my-data question comes up.
> People - STOP SNEAKING AROUND UNDER AND BEHIND YOUR APPLICATIONS.
> Just let the applications do it.
>
> --
> Adam Tauno Williams
>
For my money, I'd like to see the Help-->About and similar descriptions
include some
mention of where the app stores its data. Maybe not the whole "yellow
brick road"
but at least a mention of where to find the first few bricks.
In defense of "going behind the app" I confess that a major motivation
for using linux
lies in having access to the data mostly in the clear rather than hidden
in some "registry"
or stuck with where the app developers decided it belongs because they
know best.
{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}
Cheers,
~~~ 8d;-/ Dan
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