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

[Martin Abente]

That is just a separate idea,  but just to clarify, I am not suggesting
doing it each second. But in some sufficiently small interval, in minutes.
Quick question, aren't the activities saving metadata regularly now?

Anyway, I think the approach I mentioned should work fine, as I don't see
why we should try anything too complex when this data is not 100% reliable
as is just the time the activity was opened.

just my opinion,


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

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>> If it doesn't close properly, it gets discarded naturally. No complex
>> logic.
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>> The only "improvement" it occurs to me, is that we could "commit" this
>> time regularly... so even if its laptops shutdown we could still get some
>> not-so-garbage data.
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> Please no. This means write files many times, less battery use, etc.
>
> Gonzalo
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>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>>
>>>> Jerry
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>>>> > 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.orgwrote:
>>>> > > 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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