KIconLoader Optimization Idea

[Luke Alan Sandell]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
 
> AFAIK kbuildsycoca has to be run when new files have been installed or
> changed. Does this have to happen on every KDE startup ? (hmm, yes, if we
> want to ensure that ksycoca is always up to date  without additional
> measures, like requiring to update some kind of time stamp if something
> has been installed... )
> 

KBuildSycoca normally always runs on KDE startup. In KDE 3.4 there is an
option in KControl to disable it, but you have to make sure you don't
install/remove any KDE packages while KDE is not running. KCrash also
refuses to print a backtrace if you do this, to keep users from reporting
crashes due to a corrupt Sycoca (but then the kind of user who do such a
thing wouldn't have debugging symbols anyway...)

-Luke