[Sugar-devel] new feature for 102: Launch Limits

[Daniel Narvaez]

Is it useful for maximum_instances to be different from 1? Otherwise I tend
to think a single_instance boolean would make more sense and allow a better
alert.


On 5 November 2013 18:53, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wrote up a page for a proposed enhancement to set limit to open
> activities and open instances [1].
>
> Summary:
>
> At the request of OLPC AU (in an effort to reduce OOM freezes) this
> patch uses gconf to set a maximum number of open activities. An alert
> is shown if the user tries to launch more activities than the maximum
> asking them to close an activity before opening a new one. If
> maximum_number_of_open_activites is not set or == 0, then there is no
> maximum limit applied.
>
> Further, Some activities don't behave well if more than one instance
> is open (e.g., SL #4554). This patch sets a limit on the number open
> instances of an activity based on a new field in activity.info:
> maximum_instances.
>
> If and only if the maximum_instances field is present in
> activity.info, is it used to set the limit of open instances.
>
>
> thanks for your consideration.
>
> -walter
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/LaunchLimits
>
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Daniel Narvaez
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