[rfc][icedtea-web][itweb-settings] Improve Icedtea-Web cache disk space

[Jie Kang]

----- Original Message -----
> On 09/08/2014 08:38 PM, Lukasz Dracz wrote:
> >> As well, the ability to choose where icedtea-web downloads file should
> >> still
> >> be enabled even if cache has a limit of 0.
> >
> > Yes since it still downloads the files even if they are deleted after use.
> > This provides the user with more choice on where they want the files to be
> > temporarily.
> 
> No, the UI components to choose a cache location should be kept disabled in
> this
> case indeed. 0 means *no* *cache*. Hence, IcedTea-Web should behave as
> expected
> which would be to store all downloaded resources in memory and if, and only
> if,

I disagree with disabling the cache location until this feature is implemented, or the feature for storing in a temporary directory is implemented

> it should turn out to be impossible to implement proper working of
> IcedTea-Web
> without storing resources into files then they should be stored in the system
> configured user's temporary directory. In other words, if cache size is 0
> then
> downloaded resources /could/ go into the user's temporary directory, although
> this should practically never happen because IcedTea-Web should error out
> with
> an OutOfMemoryException before anything else in this case.
> Also, the UI components denoting the cache location /could/ display the path
> to
> the user's temporary directory if cache size is 0.
> So in any event the UI components must be disabled at cache size 0.




Regards,


> 
> Jacob
> 

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Jie Kang