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i-rinat / freshplayerplugin

ppapi2npapi compatibility layer
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Supporting the XDG specification #343

Closed Sworddragon closed 7 years ago

Sworddragon commented 7 years ago

I'm using the freshplayerplugin 0.3.5 and noticing that things like the asset cache will be stored within ~/.config. For caches applications commonly follow the XDG specification to store them in the related path (commonly at default ~/.cache). Maybe the freshplayerplugin can do the same for caches too.

i-rinat commented 7 years ago

I thought about that, using .cache for cache. But there is no way to discern which files are cache and which are settings. They are just files for PPAPI. Since there is no reliable way to determine which part could be safely deleted, I store them all inside a subdirectory in .config. (So does Chrome).

i-rinat commented 7 years ago

Despite moving cache into ~/.cache is generally a good idea, it cannot be implemented in this project.