KDE Development on Windows

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday, April 08, 2014 10:17:17 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2014 Apr 14:08:38 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 2014-04-02, 18:19:09, Chris wrote:
> > > way dll's are loaded. App directory first, shared folders last. Why do I
> > > even need ksycoca4 I'll never know. Are you really trying to emulate
> > > windows registry? one of the worst inventions like ahh ever.
> > 
> > The system config cache is not a config storage system.
> > 
> > It  improves startup speed by creating a mmap-able cache of system
> > configuration items. Not really needed on Windows where it is unlikely
> > that
> > there are system configuration files.
> 
> Well, you need it to load plugins with KServiceTypeTrader -- without a
> sycoca cache, that won't work as far as I know. If there's a way to make
> KServiceTypeTrader bypass sycoca and scan the desktop files directly, that
> would be awesome, of course.

did you check whether this situation regarding ksycoca changed with KF5 ?

Alex