Adding icon cache to kdelibs?

[Jens Herden]

> a proper solution is "somewhat" harder and one of the primary reasons
> why all previous attempts at this feature died already in the discussion
> phase:
> i think the way to go is always deliver icons from the cache as if it
> was up to date on startup. that means whatever is in the cache or a
> question mark if there is nothing. then start a backgraound job that
> does a *proper* scan of the icon dirs. if the icons change, the cache is
> rebuilt (incrementally, of course - it has to stay responsive). for this
> to have any effect, KIcon needs a signal updated() and applications need
> to act upon it (i guess this can be mostly centralized).
> still think you get ready for 4.0? ;)

How would this work, polling information from the disk?
I am wondering about waking up the CPU and wasting energy just to see that the 
icons have not changed.

Jens

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