comments on KDE performance tips

Chris Howells chris at chrishowells.co.uk
Wed Jan 15 17:07:26 GMT 2003


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Hi,

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 14:53, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> > why hasn't kde been changed to use /var/tmp yet?
> > i thought that was the supposed "proper" location
> > for this stuff?
>
> The reason is backwards compatibility with KDE 2.x, but I think that can be
> solved with a symlink so I will add it to my todo list. Should
> "share/cache" be moved there as well?

I filed a bug report asking for it to be moved to /var/tmp, IIRC it was closed 
by Simon Hausmann because $KDETMP can be set to tell it to use another place. 
Fixing it in the code would be, IMHO, better though.

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