Icon caching is unusable [MY TAKE]

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 21:17 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> 
> You might not be sensible to the amount of work it takes for
> applications in a distro, but you might be more sensible to the legacy
> support of older applications, not cache-aware. 

Gtk+/Gnome has *always* needed the toplevel mtime change, even before
the on-disk change. If an application is running it won't notice
additions of new icons until the toplevel mtime changes. Of course, this
is a smaller problem, as an app restart fixes it.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
                   alexl at redhat.com    alla at lysator.liu.se 
He's an otherworldly arachnophobic barbarian moving from town to town, helping 
folk in trouble. She's an artistic mutant Valkyrie trying to make a difference 
in a man's world. They fight crime!