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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>, 15331@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15331: desktop should auto-save on idle time
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:56:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0SSt5Z=AGPiCTu-K4h+1UfB_3t-n_fmEjoezBhs6JhJpwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo3z5ehf.fsf@mail.jurta.org>

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:

> You can't use idle timers even with such reasonable timeouts
> as 5 minutes between saves, i.e. when the user needs to save
> the desktop every 5 minutes, with idle timers the user have to sit
> inactively 5 minutes waiting for Godot^H^H^H^H^H desktop saving.
> Thus desktop saving requires two different timers out of necessity.

Or, the desktop can be saved after 5 minutes (or whatever) of idle
time, and if the user needs more frequency, they can bind
desktop-save-in-desktop-dir and do it manually...

When I'm writing or translating with LibreOffice, I do not trust
autosaving. I type Ctrl-S after every paragraph. Seems saner.

   J





  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-10 20:57 bug#15331: Idle timer for desktop Juri Linkov
2013-09-11 17:23 ` bug#15331: desktop should auto-save on idle time Sam Steingold
2013-09-11 19:45   ` Juri Linkov
2013-09-12  0:56     ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2013-09-12 20:58       ` Juri Linkov
2013-09-16 21:18         ` Juri Linkov
2013-12-16 21:49   ` Juri Linkov

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