On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:15:02 +0100, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Should we send out the remaining minutes regularly while the server is > waiting, say every five minutes, or should the GUI implement its own > countdown? If it is sent regularly, the GUI and API become easier (no > need to do anything except for reacting to the signal, no need for a > "get" method). The drawback is of course coarse update intervals of the > display or frequent D-Bus traffic. >
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. All the best, David _______________________________________________ SyncEvolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.syncevolution.org/listinfo/syncevolution
