On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 09:36 -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > Hello, > > So this isn't a strictly development question, but based on the > answer it very well could be. I don't use evolution, but the > evolution-data-server is running. Is it used for anything else? If not, > perhaps it would be good to not run it as part of the gnome session when > the users default mail client isn't evolution. If it is used for other > purposes then whatever. Otherwise I can file a bug report if desired... Yes, several other things use it. It's something of an unfortunate name; e-d-s is really a generic PIM information server. It's a sensible model: it lets multiple applications access and modify the information in question while they are all active. KDE, which did not used to use this model, had a problem where if anything other than KMail wanted to use contact data - say you wanted to synchronize it with another device via OpenSync - you had to close KMail first, or messiness could ensue (the sync would fail, or in a bad case KMail could fall over; I think in a really really bad case you could even lose or duplicate data). KDE is switching to the model of having a server for this information with Akonadi. GNOME's server for this information is e-d-s. The most common non-Evolution user of e-d-s data is the clock applet on the panel; it notifies you of impending appointments, and it does this by looking them up via e-d-s. But there are several others too. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
