Evolution mess

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 08:14 -0800, Les wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 16:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 04:14 -0800, Les wrote:
> > > Hi, everyone,
> > > Continuing my issues with moving to 64 bit and porting stuff, evolution
> > > has a phantom contact list.  As you can see in the attached screenshot,
> > > the first "on this computer>personal" contact list doesn't appear to
> > > exist.  The other one is the good one.  I don't appear to be able to
> > > move the second "on this computer>personal" or even copy or move its
> > > contents to the first "on this computer>personal" list.  Neither can I
> > > delete the first one, because the delete option is disabled in the menu.
> > > I suspect that there is an error in my personal .evolution folder that
> > > is causing this, but I am unsure about editing those settings without
> > > advice or a reference.
> > > 
> > > My google searches have not turned up anything I could use.
> > > 
> > > Any assistance or advice would be helpful.
> > 
> > Start by stating what version of Evo you have. F14 includes 2.32, which
> > moved stuff around, e.g. ~/.evolution no longer contains most of the
> > config info.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> 
> Hi, Poc,
> 	I am running 2.32.1.  Sorry about that, I forgot to put it in the
> email.

Evo 2.32.x stores some stuff under ~/.evolution, other stuff under
~/.local/share/evolution, and yet other stuff under ~/.config/evolution.
Not to mention the GConf stuff, which is separate.

This is apparently meant to make some kind of sense (it's in line with
the Free Desktop guidelines).

poc