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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

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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:
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>>> 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.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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