#8853 NORM Not Tri: optionally disable autosaving on activity switching

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#8853: optionally disable autosaving on activity switching
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 Reporter:  erikg                           |         Owner:  erikg        
     Type:  enhancement                     |        Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal                          |     Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  sugar                           |       Version:  not specified
 Keywords:  autosave save activity tabbing  |   Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0                               |     Blockedby:               
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 Switching between activities is probably the worst time to initiate
 automatic saves of the activities which we are switching from.  Saving
 requires system resources (CPU, memory access) which are crucial to
 providing a smooth and rapid transition between windows.  When we autosave
 we slow down the process of getting from one activity to the other.

 To resolve this issue we should at very least enable a 'no auto save'
 configuration of Sugar.  A better solution would be to change the way in
 which we autosave, either by tracking which activities actually need to
 save state, or by automatically saving after some period of user idle
 time.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8853>
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