On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:29:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> So the solution is to install and use KDE to keep gnome at bay? That > > No, the solution is: > $ rm ~/.thumbnails/* ~/.cache
That's not a solution: 1/ It won't prevent the creation of new thumbnails. 2/ It doesn't implement any control of how much diskspace can be occupied by thumbnails (or other things cached). 3/ It doesn't consider making use of these caches, like there should be some reasonable scheme by which is determined when and under what circumstances something should be put into the cache and when and under what circumstances it should be removed from the cache, if someone wants to use the caching. 4/ It doesn't tell you which programs eventually put data into these caches and what to do about it to prevent that or to have control over it. 5/ rm would give you an error message saying that .cache is a directory 6/ Removing things from caches while eventually programs are using these things could disturb these programs. You could enable quota support and set quotas on these directories if you want to use the caching. That would mean to overdo it if you don't need quota support anyway, but it's possible. Then what happens when the quota limit is reached? The user just needs to have control over it. That includes, for example, being able to specify for which files and directories no data must be put into the caches ... They way it's done now isn't even half way thought out. -- "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
