On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > On Wednesday 05 January 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> if it ends up to be pulled from all KDE users, couldn't it become a bit of > a burden for KDE servers? yes. on the other hand servers are pretty powerful these days and this service is rediculously lighweight. limiting pulls for updates to either on-demand or weekly (with a randomly chosen day and time on each system) should be doable, i'd think. esp if we extended synchrotron a bit to accept a set of items to request update status for, which would make it a single roundtrip and hit to the database. > > i'd like to make this easy for DataEngine and Plasmoid developers to take > > advantage of, preferably by putting such logic right into DataEngine and > > Applet itself. it would be nice to see the logic for this in libattica so > > that it can be shared by all kinds of application (imagine starting > > Palapeli and having a dozen or two puzzles available, new ones appearing > > all the time, via synchrotron in the start up listing!). > > it makes sense: with attica seems quite easy to do anyways, from a quck > source read AtticaProvider from knewstuffs3 has functions to do that (that > atm is just used to display the update button) yes, much of it is already there. i would like to avoid having to hit the server once for every item, though. batching up update checks would be awesome. this is not what OCS was designed for, though; OCS is pretty much opendesktop.org's-webapi-beomes-a-spec from what i can tell, and so things like efficient mass update checks never came into play. > i don't think atticaprovider is exported, but is easy to do and the needed > stuff could be pushed down. agreed.. probably something we should discuss with the attica team. > > in the immediate future, while we work on these kinds of improvements, > > we > > > > can use the normal GHNS dialogs from knewstuff3 to test things out. > > > > (on a side note / as a bit of useless trivia: synchrotron came out of > > design work i did over the holidays for plasma classroom :) > > tell us moar :D not yet :P all i'll say for now is that synchrotron was page 1 in the (paper) notebook and now it is "done"; plasma classroom thoughts took up the next few pages. i need to revisit them now and figure how to tackle these things and how to make sense out of what i wrote down christmas :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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