Re: GEP 7 - icons and thumbnails - gnome_icon_loader

On 30 Sep 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 12:32, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > KDE uses something called KSyscoca. It's a read only database for these 
> > kinds of things that is generated once and then apps use it for fast 
> > lookups.
> 
> 	Whether you have a central database or not, you need some way to
> sychronise with what's on-disk; and having another daemon / level of
> caching here mostly sucks IMHO.
> 
> 	I'm assuming that we don't want to go that route directly,

Not really, but it's always interesting to look at what the competition 
does.

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