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[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2012-06-26, Duncan wrote:

> yawp, the "yet another weather plasmoid".  Unfortunately, it appears to
> be hard-coded to use ~/.cache/yawp. =:^(
> 
> I was able to solve that using a symlink... which works to get the actual
> cache all in the same spot... but doesn't get rid of the ugly .cache
> entry in $HOME. =:^(
> 
> So I guess I figure out where it's coming from (I think kdelook), and
> file a request with the author... and/or patch in my own path (easy
> enough on gentoo, just drop the patchfile in a particular patch-dir and
> the patch should be applied to updates automatically).

If it is using KDE API, it should be using KStandardDirs to find the cache 
location, e.g. KStandardDirs::saveLocation("cache")

Cheers,
Kevin


-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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