On March 23, 2010, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2010 18:50:31 Aaron Seigo wrote: > > and the picture > > should always be overwritten (the frame plasmoid is not a downloader; see > > comments below for more on this). > > Currently, we prepend a number, so it doesn't overwrite. The idea of not > using a temporary directory is that it won't automatically re-download the > picture if it's deleted (as can happen with temporary directories), so the > picture will be lost.
that's precisely why it should be put into a cache dir, though. the cache folders are a place to cache things until the user (or sysadmin, or whatever) says "free disk space that was used for caching. it's not the same as tmp space. > > the "update picture every" option doesn't follow the same UI style as > > seen on e.g. the slideshow configuration. it should probably be > > something like > > > > Autoupdate: [ 01 hours 00 Mins ] > > > > with a specialValueText of "Never" so when it is set to 0 hours and 0 > > mins, it shows (and means) "Never" > > Pointing to a remote location would of course be necessary to > auto-re-download pictures, though it would be unfortunate to have the > image vanish if you're offline. It needs to be cached in *some* way at > least... autoupdating is different from caching: it means invalidating the cached version. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
