[Thunar-dev] Caching MIME information

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> In case you are not subscribed to the xdg mailinglist, there was a nice 
> post by Matthias Clasen today, who came up with an idea about how to 
> cache the MIME database information. See
> 
> http://xfce-diary.blogspot.com/2005/03/caching-mime-information.html
> 
> I'm not 100% sure if we can/should use it with Thunar, but I think it's 
> worth a look, esp. since it could reduce startup time drastically if 
> both the icon theme (done automatically by GtkIconTheme) and the mime 
> database is cached.
> 

Waldo Bastian seemed to agree, which would imply both GNOME and KDE will 
use this cache. That's a pretty good reason to try and support it in 
thunar as well.

	Jasper