On 9/13/06, Brian Nitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do we ever log out? > 4) Free up resources. ??? > > Reason 4 is especially interesting for multiuser systems, especially > thin clients. It might be interesting for embedded uses of GNOME > (laptop/child, maemo...) to reduce resources when user isn't looking.
For single user embedded case I can't suddenly think of anything logging out would provide that idle/screensaver mode and offline mode wouldn't. When the user isn't watching you should've already stopped all timers and screen updates. Except for possible music playing and network transfers, when the screen is blanked nothing should be happening. Also doing more work (saving state, shutting down applications) just to do more work later (restarting the apps, restoring state) might not be the brightest idea unless you know the extra memory would be better spent elsewhere (but where? nothing should be happening when the user isn't looking.) -- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
