Re: [SyncEvolution] auto sync
Patrick Ohly wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 08:33 +0000, David Bremner wrote:
> At the risk of stating the obvious, please consider the effects on
> battery life of any polling process you decide to implement. I'm not an
> expert, but I would worry about any kind of logging activity that might
> spin the disk up.
There is a serious power draw risk involved with automatic updates, but
I don't think this aspect is significant. The actual syncing is when the
possible problems appear: disk, bluetooth and wireless IO may all be
involved at that point.
I agree, the sync-ui should never be forced to poll. None of the
D-Bus
messages should result in disk activity, so I'm less worried about
regular status updates sent via D-Bus.
The exception is that these updates really have to be infrequent enough
to be barely noticable (IMHO every 5 minutes would be okay). The
question to the consumers of such an event then becomes: is this too
coarse to be useful?
Jussi, what do you think?
No, that's not too coarse. An even more silent option is:
* GetAutosyncStatus() method that returns next estimated sync time
and possible reason/status
* AutosyncStatusChanged-signal that is fired when estimated time or
reason/status changes.
Is there a problem with something like this?
Jussi