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title="NEW --- - Defaulting <cachedir> to LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE for Win32 build"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71691">71691</a>
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<td>fontconfig-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Defaulting <cachedir> to LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE for Win32 build
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<td>freedesktop@behdad.org
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<td>minor
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<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Windows (All)
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>jehan@zemarmot.net
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<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>conf
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<td>fontconfig
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=89343" name="attach_89343" title="Defaulting to LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE">attachment 89343</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=89343&action=edit" title="Defaulting to LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE">[details]</a></span>
Defaulting to LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE
Hi,
I'm a GIMP dev. We had some user telling us that the default value for
fontconfig cache may not be the most appropriate on Windows (cf.
<a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703331">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703331</a>).
Well I'm not expert on Windows, so I can't say if
LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE is the best fit (but saving in the non-roaming
data repository sounds acceptable). On the other hand, saving in the %TEMP%
directory though may indeed not be the best idea, if the TEMP directory concept
is anything like on UNIX (where you should not expect the TEMP directories to
have the same contents at your next reboot. It may, but on many installation,
temp dirs are emptied). And apparently, according to our user, it is indeed
often emptied on Windows too.
So since you already have the implementation for
LOCAL_APPDATA_FONTCONFIG_CACHE, I'm proposing to simply use it as the default
for Windows.
Patch attached.</pre>
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