When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-18 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi guys, Over on the mailing list for Macports, which provides ports of open source software on Apple Mac OS X, we are having a discussion about kbuildsycoca4, its effect on ports of KDE libraries and applications and when and whether to run it. The other day I installed kdesdk4 on my Apple Macbo

Re: When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-18 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Ian Wadham wrote: > Hi guys, > > Over on the mailing list for Macports, which provides ports of > open source software on Apple Mac OS X, we are having a > discussion about kbuildsycoca4, its effect on ports of KDE > libraries and applications and when and whether

Re: When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-18 Thread Andras Mantia
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 06:17:04 PM Ian Wadham wrote: > Hi guys, > [..] Technically it needs to be run if new .desktop files are installed. Be it KParts (plugins), new applications, new services. On Linux the directories where those files are installed are monitored, so the cache is auto

Re: When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-18 Thread mk-lists
> Technically it needs to be run if new .desktop files are installed. Is the assumption correct that the run would have to be carried out by the user and not by root? >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<

Re: When does kbuildsycoca4 run?

2012-09-18 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-09-18, mk-li...@email.de wrote: >> Technically it needs to be run if new .desktop files are installed. > > Is the assumption correct that the run would have to be carried out by the > user and not by root? Yes. (and kded takes care of running it (with a small delay of a minute or so (t

Arrange items on desktop in Search and Launch Activity

2012-09-18 Thread Franklin Weng
Hi list, I once posted two questions about SaL activity on kde-user list about two weeks ago. Here I'll ask again and hope to get KDE developer's points of view. 1. In the SaL activity we can choose which categories will show on the desktop. But it seems that we don't have any way to change th