Re: [Tracker] libmediaart bug 722795 - Saving .mediaartlocal/ dirs everywhere

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 15/09/14 17:44, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com
> <mailto:martyn lanedo com>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/09/14 10:39, Martyn Russell wrote:
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>         On 10/09/14 10:37, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
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>             I agree, we should just remove it. I never liked it anyway
>             (it was a
>             N9 requirement which we probably should have placed in a
>             #ifdef MEEGO
>             #endif)
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>
>         You think we should remove it entirely or use a top level
>         directory for
>         removable media?
>
>
>     Sam, any comment on this, I know you've worked on this API in the
>     past and wanted to know if you had any input here.
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I don't think it's useful to store the media art cache on removable
> media. I think we should store all cached media art in
> ~/.cache/media-art. Usually people use a removable storage device in
> only a few different computers. It's rare that they plug the device into
> a new computer every day, and that's the only time that having the cache
> stored on the device itself is really an advantage.

OK, based on the comments here, we now have a branch:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722795#c7

This simplifies the code quite a bit actually.

I can't push this right now since we're supposed to be in code freeze, 
but I will after the stable releases are made.

Review / comments appreciated!

Thanks guys,

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder & Director @ Lanedo GmbH.
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