[sugar] Autosave in 8.2.0?

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 17.07.2008 um 07:37 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:

> Am 17.07.2008 um 00:10 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso:
>
>> Marco has added a session manager to Sugar (in 8.2.0) that takes care
>> of telling activities to save their work because the system is being
>> shut down. Haven't verified if this is complete and working. Have  
>> you,
>> Marco? If so, this would also take care of the case where kids shut
>> down before closing all running activities first.
>
>
> How does this work from an activity's pov?
>
> - Bert -


Thanks for not answering, and not updating the API doc, and me having  
to dig through Sugar patches to find out how this works.

I updated the doc:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#D-Bus_Methods
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	org.laptop.Activity.SyncData()
	Called when the laptop is about to shutdown, reboot, or suspend. The  
activity must save its state in the datastore.
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Apparently this does not send a reason for having to sync - IMHO  
suspend is not as severe a reason as impending shutdown/reboot so an  
activity might want to choose to not save on suspend if suspends are  
as frequent as we anticipate.

- Bert -