Evolution Data Server...

Nathanael D. Noblet nathanael at gnat.ca
Mon Nov 2 16:57:02 UTC 2009


On 11/02/2009 09:52 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.
>


Good to know! ;) Thanks for the info.




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