<div dir="auto"><div>In profiling, I've seen parsing desktop files is expensive. Even something like KProtocolInfo registers highly in most application logs.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Parts of plasma do various complex lookups of application desktop files. We definitely need some cache in some form of those desktop files for use from within plasma. Ksycoca works well.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Whether it needs to be global or cover as much as it does is still debatable.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">David</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br>
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