On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 15:51, Christoph Feck wrote: > On Saturday 14 May 2011 21:42:18 Mark wrote: >> Why is KDE having it's own image/pixmap caching classes >> when the Qt lib also has them (QPixmapCache and QCache). > > KDE's cache classes are on-disk caches and cross-application, while Qt's cache > classes are only in-memory and not shared between applications.
Also note that KPixmapCache is now deprecated and that KImageCache is just a thin convenience wrapper around KSharedDataCache. So really, KSharedDataCache is KDE's only current caching system. Parker
