Am 26.07.2011 20:23, schrieb siziwi:
> Hi Oliver
> Thanks for your prompt reply. If I change the value manually to a
> specific path, I then have to recompile form source, is this correct? Is
> there another way to go? (I've installed over the ppa quite easy, no
> compiling)


No you just have to set the environment variable. Probably something you 
might want to do in your .profile. Simply add something like:

export QLGT_CACHE=/tmp/qlandkartegt

QLGT will test if the variable is set and use the default path if not.



> Would it be a lot of work to have a function which reads the path from
> the configuration file on each startup? Then changing the path would be
> much easier and more or less everybody could do it.

Doing it just in the config file is just as hidden as with the 
environment variable. A proper place would be the setup dialog. But 
right now I have other more pressing task on the stack. It would really 
help if theses little critters are solved by users.

Oliver


> Thanks and kind regards,
> Simon
>
> Am 26.07.2011 20:08, schrieb Oliver Eichler:
>> Hi Simon
>>
>> I just had a look at the code (COsmTilesHash.cpp). On non Windows
>> systems, which Ubuntu is for sure, you can set the environment
>> variable QLGT_CACHE to point to an alternative path. In the
>> configuration file (~/.config/QLandkarteGT/QLandkarteGT.conf) you find
>> the entry:
>>
>> [osm]
>> maxcachevalueMB=100
>>
>> to setup the cache size. Tiles older than 8 days are updated. At least
>> that is what I read from Marc's [1] code.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>> [1] OSM tile server support has been done by Marc Feld
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I don't want say that deletion or not deleting is the correct thing, but
>>> my system deletes it and therefore I wish to have an option to change
>>> the path. However, I don't have a clue how to fix this as I'm not a
>>> programmer. My idea would be to have an additional settings section
>>> where this path could be changed and maybe some other settings to be
>>> set, for example to renew the data (maybe if they are older than a month
>>> or so) and an option for manual deleting of all the tiles.
>>> I also understand Oliver who don't want to have home directory full of
>>> cache-stuff, I haven't thought about this. Does QLandkarteGT write
>>> something else to /tmp apart from maps (tiles of maps)?
>>> If someone could give me information how to change this, I could try.
>>> Thanks anyway for your help so far.
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> Am 26.07.2011 19:07, schrieb Oliver Eichler:
>>>> Am 26.07.2011 18:27, schrieb Henk van Velden:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Deleting /tmp on boot is a very common thing to do on any Unix/Linux
>>>>> system
>>>>> for many years. It s ordance with where /tmp exists for.
>>>>> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard.
>>>> That simply reflects the fact that some distributions delete the
>>>> data on
>>>> reboot. It's not a rule to do it.
>>>>
>>>>> One can of course switch this action on or off or refine this
>>>>> behviour, but
>>>>> any prgrammer should be aware of the fact that files in /tmp may not
>>>>> survive a
>>>>> boot.
>>>> I am aware that many users including me do not appreciate it if an
>>>> application dumps the home directory with transient cache data. As the
>>>> only user writeable path in the system is /tmp it's the place to go.
>>>> And
>>>> on my system this does not get nuked every reboot.
>>>>
>>>> Thus if Ubuntu users think they need a special path I am happy to
>>>> accept
>>>> a patch. This is OpenSource not a one way road.
>>>>
>>>> Oliver
>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Henk
>>>>>
>>>>> Op dinsdag 26 juli 2011 18:09:39 schreef Oliver Eichler:
>>>>>> Hi Simon,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> deleting the whole tmp path is a specialty of Ubuntu. From time to
>>>>>> time
>>>>>> users complain, but so far no one supplied a patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oliver
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello
>>>>>>> I'm very new to QLandkarteGT and at first glance it looks really
>>>>>>> nice,
>>>>>>> probably the thing I've been looking for.
>>>>>>> I've got a question about the included online map. Now, I've
>>>>>>> configured
>>>>>>> QLandkarteGT to load the OSM map, and that's fine so. However,
>>>>>>> QLandkarteGT saves the tiles on
>>>>>>> /tmp/qlandkartegt-USER/cache/tile.openstreetmap.org/ and they are
>>>>>>> lost
>>>>>>> after rebooting. Is it possible to change the path for saving the
>>>>>>> tiles?
>>>>>>> As I'd like to have them available offline as well.
>>>>>>> I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and the newest QLandkarteGT version available
>>>>>>> through the ppa, at the moment it's version 1.2.2.
>>>>>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>>>>> Kind regards, Simon
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