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In this work we study the intrinsic geometry of the space of K?hler metrics under various Riemannian metrics and the corresponding variational structures. The first part is on the Dirichlet metric. A motivation for the study of this metric comes from Chen and Zheng (J Reine Angew Math, 674:195-51, 2013); there, Chen and the second author showed that the pseudo-Calabi flow is the gradient flow of the \(K\)-energy when \(\mathcal {H}\) is endowed precisely with the Dirichlet metric. The second part is on the family of weighted metrics, whose distinguished element is the Calabi metric studied in Calamai (Math Ann 353:373-02, 2012). We investigate as well their geometric properties. Then we focus on the constant weight metric. We use it to give an alternative proof of Calabi’s uniqueness of the K?hler–Einstein metrics (cf. Theorem 5.9), when \(C_1\le 0\). We also introduce a new functional called \(G\)-functional and we prove that its gradient flow has long time existence and also converges to the K?hler–Einstein metric when \(C_1\le 0\) (cf. Theorem 5.10). Mathematics Subject Classification 53C55 53C22