Use ~/.local/share

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Wed Jun 29 13:40:05 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 14:35 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> On 29 June 2016 at 14:20, Mattias Eriksson <snaggen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One thing about the Geary package is that it doesn't use the
> > ~/.local/share/
> > as the regularly installed geary application would do. Instead it
> > uses
> > ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Geary/data
> > And this is not really a big issue, but it feels confusing that
> > your mail
> > accounts are lost when installing and running Geary from a flatpak.
> 
> Why would it be confusing? You're removing the application that can
> read that data, and since Geary email account data can only be read
> by
> Geary I don't see anything confusing about the data going away with
> the application.
> 
> If Geary's account information were actually shared between email
> clients then I would understand this concern a lot more.

I think the issue is that the pre-flatpak configured accounts are lost
when switching to flatpak.



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