Review Request 127236: Leverage QDir to know what's in a KIconThemeDir

[David Edmundson]

> On March 1, 2016, 4:37 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > Eh... I just realized it's not 100% correct. We have a test (testUnknownIconNotCached) that fails, unsure how I didn't see it yesterday.
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> > The problem with this one is that we are not reacting when icons are introduced at runtime. I tried adding a sneaky QFileSystemWatcher/KDirWatch on KIconTheme but it didn't signal.
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> > Should I just discard the patch?

Could you compare modified time of mBaseDirThemeDir and reload if needed?
it'd be one extra stat on the directory each time, but still a saving from before


- David


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On March 1, 2016, 3:25 a.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
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> (Updated March 1, 2016, 3:25 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Christoph Feck.
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> Repository: kiconthemes
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> Description
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> At the moment we're playing Battleship to see if an icon is present in a subdirectory. This means that we are checking on every directory if there's an icon that matches the size with a said name on every request.
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> This can be seen easily with strace:
> ```
> $ strace kwrite |& grep ENOENT | wc -l
> 6212
> ```
> After the patch: 
> ```
> $ strace kwrite |& grep ENOENT | wc -l
> 1993
> ```
> We reduce these accesses to let QDir keep the list of files inside the directory (that was already being generated at some point, it just was being discarded).
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> Diffs
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>   src/kicontheme.cpp 0996054 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127236/diff/
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> Testing
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> Builds, tests still pass, applications start noticeably faster.
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> Thanks,
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez
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