Re: [patch] thumbnail cache purge function

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> > > There is currently no cache cleaning in gnome, and large caches slow 
> > > down login noticeably (bug 430123).
> > I don't think having this in a library is the right thing. It should
> > rather be handled by some desktop process that periodically does this
> > for users, such that no app is forced to do this themselves. For
> > instance, gnome-settings-daemon could periodically spawn a child to do
> > this.

I've provided a very rough initial patch at 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523159 to add a cache-cleaning 
function to gnome-settings-daemon. However, I don't understand how to 
debug gnome-settings-daemon plugins. I could use some guidance in the 
bug report...

- Mike