On Friday, 2010-05-28, Xavier Brochard wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2010 11 May 15:50 -0500, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:22:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> > > Is it guaranteed that KDE doesn't store anything outside of ~/.kde > >> > > so that a user doesn't risk things getting desynched if one > >> > > exchanges one ~/.kde with a different one? > >> > > >> > No, Akonadi stores some stuff in ~/.config/ > >> > >> So one is better off by using a completely new accout (and ditching it > >> afterwards). > > > > That will prove rather quickly if the trouble is local or system wide. > > > > My regret by moving ~/.local out of the way > > You don't have to move out ~/.local, it contains data. > Akonadi store its configuration files in ~/config and store its data in > ~/.local/share/Akonadi (plus the mysql.conf file) > Other folders under ~/.local/share may store data used by Akonadi like > contacts and local-mail (it depends on your configuration). Most emails are > still stored in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail folder. > You may decide to remove the ~/.local/share/Akonadi folder to rebuild the > database, but you don't need to. > Neither one need to move the entire ~/.kde tree (in most testing case), > just change ~/.kde/share/config When referring to ~/.config or ~/.local/share one should keep in mind that these are locations specified in the freedesktop.org "base dirs" spec, so other applications are likely to use them as well. It is also basically the reason Akonadi things are there because it is a non- KDE program and can't easily detect KDE's local prefix. Cheers, Kevin
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