On Thursday, 2012-08-16, Milian Wolff wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> where should an app store it's cache data? I see that KStandardDirs notes
> "cache", but how would one actually use that?
>
> I.e. if I want to write a file to the app's cache dir, I need a path to
> said dir. ::findDirs would not return anything for these tests:
>
> qDebug() << KGlobal::dirs()->findDirs("cache", "kdevelop");
> qDebug() << KGlobal::dirs()->findDirs("cache", "kdevelop/foo/bar");
> qDebug() << KGlobal::dirs()->findDirs("data", "kdevelop/foo/bar");
>
> Apparently, only existing directories are returned (if I create e.g.
> ~/.kde/cache-$host/kdevelop the first call will return the path to that
> folder).
>
> So how do I figure out the recommended path for cache data? Should I use
> KStandardDirs::resourceDirs("cache") and pick the first item in the
> returned list? Could more than one directory be returned?Try KStandardDirs::saveLocation() Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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