Just as additional data point, I'm planning to migrate sugar to use the XDG directories. Posting an initial plan right now.
On 15 December 2012 09:03, Ajay Garg <a...@activitycentral.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I will leave the choice of deciding upon the "icon files" directory to you > guys :) > > My personal opinion :: I would refrain from using the /tmp directory, since > it is, well, temporary mount-point, and I would not point to delve too much > into shakeable territory. > > This is confirmed in Fedora-18, because as far as I know, in Fedora-14, we > were using /tmp too, but never faced any problems then. However, now in > Fedora-18, the problem is being faced, owing to "special-ness" of /tmp. > > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 11 December 2012 14:19, Manuel Quiñones <ma...@laptop.org> wrote: >> > 2012/12/11 Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org>: >> >> In the meantime, have the icons cached in a directory is no so bad. >> >> Maybe we can do it in /tmp/ to get it deleted at startup >> >> without need more >> > >> > Yes, I think using /tmp is the way to go. And the Journal is doing >> > that for the same icon in the palette and details view already. >> >> Isn't this more or less a cache? If so we could use XDG_CACHE_DIR >> >> >> http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functions.html#g-get-user-cache-dir >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Ajay Garg > Dextrose Developer > Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com -- Daniel Narvaez _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel