[sugar] Autosave in 8.2.0?

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 20.07.2008 um 08:59 schrieb Marco Pesenti Gritti:

> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de 
> > wrote:
>> Thanks for not answering,
>
> Hmm? Both Tomeu and me answered.
>
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016914.html
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016951.html

I see. Thanks - I have to check my email setup :/

>> and not updating the API doc,
>
> The time I can devote to OLPC is *very* limited these days and I had
> no time until today to even check this API was working properly... I
> just finished up the python Activity bits and I have a patch up for
> review. I will try to update the doc on monday.
>
>> and me having
>> to dig through Sugar patches to find out how this works.
>>
>> I updated the doc:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#D-Bus_Methods
>> ===================
>>       org.laptop.Activity.SyncData()
>>       Called when the laptop is about to shutdown, reboot, or  
>> suspend. The
>> activity must save its state in the datastore.
>> ===================
>> Apparently this does not send a reason for having to sync - IMHO
>> suspend is not as severe a reason as impending shutdown/reboot so an
>> activity might want to choose to not save on suspend if suspends are
>> as frequent as we anticipate.
>
> This code never went in actually... See the mails I referenced.


Okay. Thanks and apologies.

- Bert -