Bug 276466

Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.4) 
OS:                Linux

It would be great if KDE would use the ~/.cache/ e.g. ~/.cache/kdecache directory for caching data instead of writing to /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER. The freedesktop guidline recommends this directory for cache data: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

IMHO there are some good reasons to do this:
1) If all software would use this directory for personal cache data, it would be more simple (and obvious) to exclude all of this data out of backups.

2) If you have the system partition (including /var) installed on a SSD it would save unnecessary write operations on this SSD.

3) Deleting a user's home directory removes all his temporary data, too. Moving his home directory to another server keeps the cached data automatically in place.

Thanks,
Gert

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Use ~/.cache to store cache data in.