On Tuesday, 2013-04-16, David Faure wrote: > 4) Defined standard for .desktop file cache > > This is something that I've been wanting for quite some time already: > replacing the ksycoca cache with something that is updated when .desktop > files are installed, without the need for directory watching or slow > kbuildsycoca on login. Much like update-mime-database works. The existing > tool update-desktop- database will be updated to also create this binary > on-disk cache, and should be run by package post-installs (but we'll also > detect the case where the cache wasn't updated, by looking at directories > mtime, and we'll update it on- demand; so, unlike update-mime-database, > this won't be strictly required, just a performance improvement). > > We designed the format of the binary cache so that it's easy to use without > memory allocations (just mmap), exactly like the shared-mime-info cache. > > Status: Ryan is working on adding the cache generation to update-desktop- > database, and on an implementation of the use of the cache. I'll look into > either using the latter (he's using BSD license to make that impossible), > or implementing that with Qt classes myself (as I did for the mime spec).
Did you mean "using a BSD license to make that possible" or is there a new requirement that BSD licensed code is a no-go? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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