On 24.02.2015 11:42, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Olivier Tilloy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ted Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 16:35 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>>
>>> after now about 3 months of constant use of my bq phone, i took a deeper
>>> look on the weekend at the accumulated cache data:
>>>
>>> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ du -hcs .local/share
>>> 2,0G .local/share
>>>
>>> Seems really odd that these are in ~/.local/share ? Shouldn't it be ~/.cache
>>> ? I don't think we should ever autoexpire anything in ~/.local/share because
>>> that's in theory where user data lives.
>> Yup, that’s https://launchpad.net/bugs/1424726 (just filed it, I
>> thought it had been reported already but apparently not).
> And fixed with 
> https://code.launchpad.net/~osomon/webbrowser-app/cacheLocation/+merge/250730.
>
> However while testing the fix, I observed that oxide writes the
> "Cache" directory to ~/.cache/webbrowser-app/ (good), but it still
> writes other directories like "GPUCache" and "Local Storage" to
> ~/.local/share/webbrowser-app/, which looks suspicious to me. At least
> it is consistent with what chromium does on my desktop.
>
That makes perfect sense as far as local storage goes because user data
is stored there. If apps also use it for caching that's because there's
no cache API.

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