> > 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.
I hardly think that a menu item labelled "Backup Evolution Data ..." under "File" is obscure, nor is it necessary to remember anything. It's not like you have to delve deep down into menus or find a command line option to do it. > > What people actually do is backup and restore their entire home > directory. Sometimes they restore just pieces of it. Because, you know, > they might be moving to a new laptop with a 256 GB SSD much smaller than > the 1 TB hard drive they used to have. And that works perfectly fine for Evolution. You don't have to use the menu backup/restore - but it is useful if you can't restore your whole home directory. In fact I haven't used the backup/restore facility for years - I have either copied my whole home between machines or I have decided to start fresh (which is always a good option after a few years). > > Evolution and Gnome itself are very unhelpful with this by spreading > necessary information into at least three different directories: > .local, > .config and gsettings / dconf / gconf / whatever-conf. > > One single .application directory like Firefox uses in .mozilla and > Thunderbird in .thunderbird is far more manageable and useful. Evolution conforms to Gnome standards, because it's a Gnome application. Firefox/Thunderbird aren't Gnome applications - if they were they should store their data according to Gnome guidelines. All part of the rich ecosystem of a Linux install. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
