comments on KDE performance tips

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Thu Jan 16 11:53:20 GMT 2003


On Thursday 16 January 2003 12:21, Alex wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 16:14, you wrote:
> > On Wednesday 15 January 2003 15:00, Alexander Kellett 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?
>
> IMHO it shouldn't be in /tmp nor /var/tmp. ksyscoca is a cache file so why
> not place it in /var/cache.

drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root          144 Dec 14 20:09 cache
drwxrwxrwt    3 root     root           80 Jan 16 03:22 tmp

We could of course make a "drwxrwxrwt" /var/cache/kde

Cheers,
Waldo
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