[Sugar-devel] Time spent on activity (was Best time, format for logging?)

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>wrote:

> It is easier for users to understand shutting down the laptop by pressing
> the power button twice than to use the shutdown in the XO menu. However,
> this shutdown does not properly close open activities.
>
> When the power light goes red, I would assume it would be possible to
> perform an orderly shutdown.
>
> The record is of an activity session so maintaining a list of session
> information seems logical.
>
> One option is to record the launch time in the stop time at launch so that
> the metadata shows that a an activity session was started but not properly
> closed.
>

I like that. Save in zero at start, then every write_file just need replace
the last value.

Gonzalo



>
> Tony
>
>
> On 03/27/2014 09:45 PM, sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
>
>> I was in doubt for two reasons: 1. because unlike launch_time, this
>> spent-times metadata will not be saved if the activity does not end
>> properly: could be a crash, a programming error, end of battery, etc.
>> So the item N of spent-times will not necessarily correspont to item N
>> of launch-times.
>>
>
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