VIQ Kate (was Re: [Novalug] Printing question)

[DonJr]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:02 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, DonJr wrote:
> 

>  	But what is this stuff??
> 
> [btth at topblack ~]$ kbuildsycoca running...
> Reusing existing ksycoca
> QFile::open: No file name specified
> 
>  	And why doesn't it give me my prompt back, long after I 
> hit Quit on Kate? Only after I hit ^C did I get the other shoe :
> 
> 
> [1]+  Done                    kate
> [btth at topblack ~]$
> 
>  	Of course I can try googling and the man pages for stuff 
> like kybuildsycoa, ksycoa, and QFile -- but it's dollars to 
> doughnuts the results will be as impenetrable as the likes of 
> "man rpm," which seems to require at least two advanced degrees 
> in CS just to read ...

After doing a Google on:  kbuildsycoca ksycoca QFile
I found that:
   kbuildsycoca -- Rebuilds the system configuration cache
 Which makes it sound like KDE's version of "look ahead" or store a
quick index version of the current "system configuration" in case the
user "just" might want to look something up.

Why 'kate' might require such information I have no idea.

ksycoca - gave this hit, that describes what it is:
  "Sycoca stands for System Configuration Cache and is nominated to be
the succesor of kregistry."
  See:
<http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/ksycoca.html>
for more information.

QFile - is that name of a LOCK-file or something like that.

The simple answer is kbuildsycoca and ksycoca are to KDE based
applications like GConf is to Gnome based applications. They store the
applications registry(configuration) information. And 'kate' being KDE
based assumes(requires) that 'Sycoca' is aviable.

--  
-- 
 Don E. Groves, Jr. 

$ /usr/games/fortune : 
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is
brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the
flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if
ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will
attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you
are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he
lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of
peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid
than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by
an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and
Putnam as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add
the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
  -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"