Doing stuff at quit time doesn't seem quite right: I can certainly
see people leaving the app running for a long time.
Another alternative is to have the dialog threaten, er I mean
promise, to compact in a while, e.g. 2 minutes, with options to
cancel or proceed right away. Some Mac OS X software does this (e.g.
Backup): personally, I find that works pretty well.
--Grant
On 18 May, 2007, at 08:26, D John Anderson wrote:
How about doing the compact automatically, i.e. without any user
intervention, occasionally after you quit Chandler. That way our
users don't need to be bothered learning about Chandler's
housekeeping details.
If you insist on having a dialog, how about always bringing it up
when compacting after quitting, but give it a single button:
cancel, so you if you do nothing it just works.
John
On May 17, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Reid Ellis wrote:
On May 17, 2007, at 17:59, Andi Vajda wrote:
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Jared Rhine wrote:
I sent this email a couple days ago:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2007-May/
008233.html
but multiple people told me they didn't get a copy. So a quick
resend. The body:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [commits] (vajda) [14318] - fixed bug in trying to
duplicate a
closed cursor
- added CompactTask, a durable task compacting the repository
every 7 days
-----
Am I reading this right, that every 7 days all Chandler users
will have
to confirm a dialog (or reject and get that dialog the next day)?
Yes, this is a 'courtesy'. The alternative is have chandler block
the UI once a week for doing a compact for a few minutes to a bit
more (on Esther's repository of 6500 versions, it ran in 3.5 hours).
In other words, if your repository got so big as to cause a lot
of disk access when iterated to be compacted, your CPU usage goes
down to 10% (or less) and your HDD usage goes to 100%. On a
laptop, this can be v e r y s l o w.
I certainly understand how the functionality of compaction will
be a
benefit to end-users. Just not too psyched at the UI aspects.
Has all
the charm of a recurring Windows systray security popup.
:)
Andi..
I would hope that this dialog requires zero interaction -- no
"Okay" button or anything. Just a "Cancel" in case you don't want
to do it now? So it runs and closes itself?
Reid
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