Re: revisiting the sycoca

2024-02-17 Thread David Faure
[sorry for breaking the thread, copy/pasting from the archives after re- subscribing] On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 1:13 PM Sune Vuorela wrote: > At some point I remember David Faure, iirc as part of his QMimeType > work, removed part of sycoca, but left the remaining bits as a per > user cache

Re: revisiting the sycoca

2024-02-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2024-02-13, Harald Sitter wrote: > Do you have a testing plan in mind? Not a dedicated one, no. But assuming your analysis is mostly correct, something along the lines of - What's the plasma startup performance with and without sycoca on a clean user - If much slower, try isolate

Re: revisiting the sycoca

2024-02-13 Thread Harald Sitter
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 1:13 PM Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2024-02-08, Harald Sitter wrote: > > It occurs to me that we should ponder sycoca a bit. > > > > Currently the sycoca contains 3 types of caches: > > At some point I remember David Faure, iirc as part of his QMimeType > work, removed

Re: revisiting the sycoca

2024-02-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2024-02-08, Harald Sitter wrote: > It occurs to me that we should ponder sycoca a bit. > > Currently the sycoca contains 3 types of caches: At some point I remember David Faure, iirc as part of his QMimeType work, removed part of sycoca, but left the remaining bits as a per user cache

Re: revisiting the sycoca

2024-02-13 Thread David Edmundson
> All in all I am not convinced we still need the sycoca As you noted it's 3 different things. I suggest we tackle it as 3 different tasks. The mime apps part we should be able to drop silently without any issue. The menu and desktop files are still needed by krunner and plasmashell and

Re: revisiting the sycoca

2024-02-08 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! Am Do., 8. Feb. 2024 um 15:22 Uhr schrieb Harald Sitter : > > It occurs to me that we should ponder sycoca a bit. > > Currently the sycoca contains 3 types of caches: > > - the mime cache: should in fact be unnecessary because there is > already a mime.cache in /usr/share/mime? That cache is

revisiting the sycoca

2024-02-08 Thread Harald Sitter
It occurs to me that we should ponder sycoca a bit. Currently the sycoca contains 3 types of caches: - the mime cache: should in fact be unnecessary because there is already a mime.cache in /usr/share/mime? - the menu structure cache: for the most part only loaded once by plasmashell so the