Please note that you can change the location of the tile cache in the preferences...
Feedback requested for the default and the config location.... I really dont' mind/care. - Chris - On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:00, Samat K Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using TMS quite a bit recently, and have setup merkaartor to > cache > an unlimited amount of tiles. This has had unintended effects with my > backup > system, which is now trying to backup hundreds of megabytes of files that > don't need to be backed up. While adding an exception for > ~/.QMapControlCache/, the default location for tile storage, it made me > wonder > why this location was chosen. A quick search on Google seems to imply that > only merkaartor uses this directory. > > Would ~/.cache/merkaartor/ be a better location? On that note, why not also > move configuration from ~/.merkaartor/ to ~/.config/merkaartor/? > > Such directories are recommended by the XDG basedir spec: > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html > > The idea is to separate configuration, non-cacheable data, and cachable > data > and to do it in a way that it is standardized between applications, and > easy > to manage. I.e. in my backup situation above, if merkaartor stored its > caches > in this directory, I'd not have to add a special exception. > > Is this something people are interested in? With the approaching 0.16 major > release, this is the ideal time to introduce such a change. > > -- > Samat K Jain <http://samat.org/> | GPG: 0x4A456FBA > > I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is > immoral > is what you feel bad after. > -- Ernest Hemingway (205) > > _______________________________________________ > Merkaartor mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor > >
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