+1 on a "Clear cache" button/menu item On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:39 AM, easyw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I think it would also useful to have a menu item to clean 3D cache on > request... > just to avoid having a huge caching ... > > Maurice > > > On 19/05/2016 05.42, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> I've had some feedback on the location of the 3D cache data on various >> systems. >> At the moment the data is in >> wxStandardPaths::Get().GetUserConfigDir()/kicad/3d/cache >> and since that's a subdir of a configuration directory I guess it's not >> surprising >> that users are not happy. >> >> From discussion with other devs it seems to be agreed that the >> 3D cache data should go into: >> >> 1. OSX: ~/Library/Caches/kicad/3d >> Equivalent: ${HOME}/Library/Caches/kicad/3d >> >> 2. Linux: ~/.cache/kicad/3d >> Actually it should be ${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/kicad/3d with the fallback >> ${HOME}/.cache/kicad/3d >> >> 3. MSWin: AppData\Local\kicad\3d >> wxStandardPaths::UseAppInfo( AppInfo_None ); >> wxStandardPaths::Get().GetUserLocalDataDir(); >> So far we have %AppData%\Local or equivalent, now we add kicad\3d >> >> Any comments/objections? If there are no objections I will create a patch >> to implement this. One drawback of course is that current users of the >> dev branch will have a lot of junk cache data in the old location but >> this is >> a detail which should be fixed. >> >> - Cirilo >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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