[packagekit] Your Up Date Application

[Daniel Nicoletti]

>Is it really all that useful to reimplement cron/at? If so, it would
>be more useful to have a more generic desktop task scheduler than to
>implement it in PK.

>pkcon + cron/at should be able to satisfy any needs (including "every
>other month on fridays that happen to be even days at 3:07").

Yeah, i thought of that too, Kde/gnome could have a task manager where we
could see all tasks, BUT it's still far better to have it in the user interface,
the user will probably do not want to find out where he can schedule that...
and in most cases a simply "weekly" would do the job.
Also cron/at AFAIK can't measure when was the last time the event occurred,
so if last update was 10 years ago it won't matter, all it cares is if
it's at the right time (ie, it's 10:30 of sunday of all weeks do pk update).
if the user never starts his computer at that time... he'll never get an update.
Cron/at are excellent tools for Servers that keep running all the year,
but for desktops it sucks.. imo

Daniel.



----- Mensagem original ----
De: Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org>
Para: PackageKit users and developers list <packagekit at lists.freedesktop.org>
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 2 de Junho de 2009 12:09:01
Assunto: Re: [packagekit] Your Up Date Application

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Daniel Nicoletti
<dantti85-pk at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
> I liked the idea too, imo the user should be able to:
>
> COMBO:
> | Hourly
> | Weekly
> | Daily
> | Never
>
> [ ] Set preferred time: (CheckBox)
> time: [23:30] (Time edit)
>
> When the checkbox is checked it enables the custom
> time editor.
> I'd do this way...

Is it really all that useful to reimplement cron/at? If so, it would
be more useful to have a more generic desktop task scheduler than to
implement it in PK.

pkcon + cron/at should be able to satisfy any needs (including "every
other month on fridays that happen to be even days at 3:07").

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki
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