On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > setting RAM requirements reminds me of classic macos :)
Indeed. And quite fitting - classic macos is the most recent (and memorable) case of "no swap" multi-tasking OS we have. Granted, it *had* a broken vmem scheme, but in practice... I agree with Albert's proposal - Newcomers to the Wellington test team open too many apps all the time - and render their machines unusable through memory pressure. From that experience, I like the idea of adding a bit of metadata that hints the mem footprint, and teaching sugar to prevent users from starting new apps if less memory than stated is available. Not a hard limitation - power-users must be able to disable it from the control panel. In that sense, it'd be great to bring back the visual cue of memory use that was disucssed back then with the original "ring" in the homeview. The ring is gone, but _some_ visual hint would help users make the connection. Forcing a single app at a time is a bit too limiting I suspect. And our hw does better than that anyway. m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
