KBUILDSYCOCA5(8)

✨ KBUILDSYCOCA5 ✨

okay bestie, so this is kbuildsycoca5 from KDE Frameworks: KService — it's the little tool that rebuilds the KService desktop file system configuration cache 💅 and honestly? it's doing the most so you don't have to.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kbuildsycoca5 [OPTIONS...]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just you, the binary, and some options 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. kbuildsycoca5 builds a binary cache of all the data chillin' in .desktop files and MIME type .xml files — the stuff the KService framework uses to find plugins, applications, and other services. no cap. 🔥

the KService library reads this database to efficiently serve up the info that's being asked of it. it's giving organized. it's giving efficient. it's giving queen behavior 👑

and here's the thing: users do not normally need to run this application directly. KService will run it all by itself if necessary — specifically, whenever any of the files whose data is cached get changed. so it's self-sufficient, it's low maintenance, it's the main character fr fr 💖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --global — ignores any user-set files (in XDG_DATA_HOME). heads up though: this is currently only supported on UNIX® systems. sorry to the others 😭
• --noincremental — instead of using the existing cache and only updating the info that's changed or been added, it starts with an empty cache. fresh start energy ✨. ignored if --global is set (so don't bother combining them, bestie).
• --nosignal — ordinarily, kbuildsycoca5 sends a signal over D-Bus once the cache is updated, pinging all the applications that use KService so they're always working with the latest info. this option suppresses that behavior. quiet mode. no group chat notification. 🙈
• --menutest — tests the generation of the application menu database. does not actually build the cache. it's a test run, not the real thing, okay? 🎀
• --testmode — uses the QStandardPaths "test mode" to avoid interfering with user data. this is intended for use with unit tests. don't touch my stuff mode, lowkey 💜
• --track menu-id — tracks a menu ID for debugging. you're following it around like a little detective 🧚
• --author — shows author information. give credit where credit is due 🫶
• --license — shows license information. the legal tea ☕
• -h, --help — shows a brief help text. when you're lost, bestie 🌈
• -v, --version — shows version information. which one are we on?? ⭐

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• cachedir/ksycoca5_[lang]_[sha1-of-dirs] — the KService cache generated by kbuildsycoca5. on UNIX® systems, cachedir is typically XDG_CACHE_HOME. that's where the magic lives ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

kded5(8), kdeinit5(8) — go read those too, iykyk 💖

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💀 BUGS 💀

please use KDE's bugtracker[1] to report bugs. not me. the bugtracker. 🙏

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🌸 AUTHORS 🌸

• Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net> — wrote the original documentation. icon behavior 💅
• Alex Merry <alexmerry@kde.org> — updated the documentation for KDE Frameworks 5. slay 🎀

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⭐ NOTES ⭐

1. KDE's bugtracker — https://bugs.kde.org

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋✨

this was brought to you by KDE Frameworks Frameworks 5.15, dated 2015-09-17 — so like, vintage. retro. iconic in its own way 💜 periodt.