Reply To: Strange issue with App-select

Maybe creating a checksum could help here?

Probably; that’s safer than simple date check which can be messed up with simple ‘touch <filename>’.

But that would require app-select to check once the application is selected for any change of the cached file and to replace the record if such a change is detected (or append a new one and then always select the last match).
I guess it will still be faster than without caching and searching the ‘*.desktop’ file.

EDIT: App select can be called with a CLI option to refresh the cache; that’s probably what one should themselves do after such a manual change.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by sybok.