[kde-freebsd] [RFC] KDE startup time and kbuildsycoca4

David Naylor naylor.b.david at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 20:10:24 UTC 2011


On Saturday, 3 September 2011 04:10:34 Axel Gonzalez wrote:
> If you take out kbuildsycoca4 from /usr/local/kde4/env/xdg-env.sh KDE
> starts faster for 10-15 secs
> 
> My boot was like 45 secs, with that line removed is 30.
> 
> kbuildsycoca4 in this file is not necessary, because is run by KDE at
> startup anyways.

Looking at xdg-env.sh it sets XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS which I 
suspect changes how kbuildsycoca4 behaves.  Are those environment variables 
carried over to when kbuildsycoca4 is run later on?  

> Can someone else confirm this actually speeds up KDE startup?
> 
> (tested on 4.6.5 from ports)

I can investigate this tomorrow...
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