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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Jerry Vonau <me at jvonau.ca> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
>
> > On March 28, 2014 at 7:38 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.
> >
>
> Think the students need to learn how to use shutdown option in sugar,
> wonder how many have lost their work using that method.
>
> > When the power light goes red, I would assume it would be possible to
> > perform an orderly shutdown.
> >
>
> I don't think there is a way for olpc's powerd to inform sugar that the XO
> is powering down. I'm pretty sure SoaS/sugar desktop is in the same boat,
> you tell sugar to shutdown the computer and that process uses dbus to tell
> the OS but nothing in sugar is listening for a dbus shutdown signal from
> outside of sugar to start an orderly shutdown.
>
>
This is a good point. If is not filled in a ticket, can you fill one?

Gonzalo



> Jerry
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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