[Okular-devel] [Bug 249572] Mega Space Eater

[Dave Jarvis]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249572





--- Comment #5 from Dave Jarvis <Thangalin gmail com>  2010-08-31 21:57:06 ---
Are shell scripts sentient, then?

if [ -a file ]; then
  echo "File exists!"
fi

;-)

Thus, on startup, it is technically possible for Okular to examine the XML
files it has littered about and incinerate those that have no corresponding PDF
file.

Another way idea is to delete files that are over a certain age.

Okular losing functionality without the files still does not make sense. Okular
is not sentient enough to know that tomorrow I am going to download and read a
PDF from Springer (at least, it better not, because that would make it sentient
and clairvoyant). Thus it does not create the XML file *before* I need it.
Therefore the XML files are not critical to its functionality after I close the
program.

Furthermore, FoxIt, xpdf, and Acroread, to my knowledge, do not leave
extraneous files lurking around.

This is a bug.

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