Sytem Administration / Paths

[Benjamin Meyer]

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On Saturday 17 April 2004 6:17 pm, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> >Originally KAudioCreator had its own option for selecting this
> > variable.  But that was removed in place of using KTempFile, but I am
> > getting requests to put it back in.  Before adding this back in I
> > figured that KAudioCreator is probably not the only application that
> > might run into this problem and so a better place to put it would be
> > in the Sytem Administration / Paths KControl module.  So before I add
> > this I wanted to get some feedback on wheather others thought this
> > would be a good thing to add or not.
>
> It makes sense to be able to set what those administrative paths are.
> Currently, we can set them with environment variables (KDETMPDIR,
> KDEVARTMPDIR [I think!], KDEDIRS, etc.)
>
> However, I don't think KAudioCreator is the rule here. I don't know many
> other apps that can create 700 MB worth of temporary files. One other
> that comes to mind is k3b, which lets you specify its temporary
> directory.
>
> My 384MB RAM-based /tmp is more than enough for anything else I throw at
> it.

Guess it came down to a consistency thing.  Other applications (wav file 
editor, video editor, divx encoder, render) can no doubt use up plenty of 
temporary space.  Would it be better for each of these applications to have 
their own configure options to specify temp location or should it be 
specified in one location?

- -Benjamin Meyer

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