[Bug 79943] it should be possible to limit the amount of disk space used by thumbnails (.thumbnails directory)

[Markus]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79943


Markus <grey_earl at web.de> changed:

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--- Comment #81 from Markus <grey_earl web de>  2011-07-29 11:00:30 ---
The spec actually proposes (as one of several possibilities) running a daemon
to clean up the cache (http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/delete.html: ... 2.
A daemon runs in the background which cleans up the cache in certain
intervalls. ...)

It doesn't specify completely when to clean up the cache, only mentioning that
thumbnails should be deleted if the original file doesn't exist anymore. IMHO,
this at least implies that a daemon may also clean up old thumbnails. This is
actually proposed for http:// and ftp:// thumbnails and thumbnails for
removable media files.

To not interrupt the operation of running programs, the daemon should IMHO not
delete a thumbnail if there is a process holding a handle to it, but otherwise
I don't see any problems with this approach, especially as Gnome also does it.

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