Re: The OLPC develop activity requirements.

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 12:55 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Martin Sevior wrote:
> > They have a requirement to save every 20 keystrokes or 20 seconds. Their
> > first thought would be to have an addition GtkSignal emitted by abiword
> > on every keystroke, then could count these and save as they need.
>
> I see no reason to do this on keystrokes, particularly because the
> journal writes are rate-limited by time (e.g. no more than one save
> every 30 seconds). Doing just an elapsed time-based implementation
> should be fine.

But I can imagine in a Develop like activity, you would want to be
notified of every change, so you can for example show some
"intellisense"/code completion like popups.

Marc
Received on Sun Mar 4 00:12:35 2007