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Subject: Re: Review Request: Be more conservative about emitting dataUpdated()
From: "Aaron Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2008-08-26 20:51:57
Message-ID: 20080826205157.31464.69425 () vidsolbach ! de
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yes, some visualizations require updates all the time.
engines really shouldn't be updating data with the same values unless requested by a visualization, such \
as via a polling interval. in the latter case the visualizaton has specifically said "update me even N \
ms", so that's ok; and that's really the only time an engine should update itself with the same data.
well, with one exception: when the engine itself puts a polling interval in action; but then it's up to \
the engine to do the right thing, and such engine-wide polling intervals should only be done when the \
data set is one known to vary over time.
so this patch would break certain things (e.g. graph monitors, as you note) and the benefit would be \
truly nominal.
what was the use case that motivate this patch?
- Aaron
On 2008-08-26 09:27:18, Alex Merry wrote:
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> (Updated 2008-08-26 09:27:18)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> This prevents Plasma::DataContainer::setData() from setting the dirty flag if it did not actually \
> change anything.
> This ensures that dataUpdated() is not emitted if the data was not actually updated.
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> The question is: is this behaviour we want? I can see that some applets (such as ones that draw graphs \
> for system or network usage) might want to depend on getting dataUpdated() regularly, even if the data \
> is exactly the same as before.
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> Diffs
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> trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/plasma/datacontainer.cpp
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/147/diff
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> Testing
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> Compiles. Applets still get updates.
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> Thanks,
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> Alex
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