[MeeGo-touch-dev] How should the theme resource caching work on host?

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

Kinnunen Kimmo.T (Nokia-MS/Helsinki) wrote:
> I don't know the design principles, but here's another viewpoint:
> 
> Themedaemon probably is not meant to be secure at all, and thus the only 
> possible option to run it would be to run it with the same user as the 
> typical apps. The reason that it uses /var/cache in the first place is 
> that there's no convention in Linux envs for a dir that would be user 
> specific, but not part of the home hierarchy. Eg. maybe we do not want 
> to put cache data in ~/.meegotouch due to backup/whatever reason..

Home directory already caches user's image etc thumbnails.
And there's a (newish) specification for a user specific cache dir.


	- Eero