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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Prefetching in Comic Strip plasmoid
From:       Miha Čančula <miha.cancula () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-01-05 9:16:34
Message-ID: cee69c4f1001050116l7cc9e4a1mb79b6bab39cc41f7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2010/1/5 Chani <chanika@gmail.com>

> On January 4, 2010 15:22:24 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On January 4, 2010, Miha Čančula wrote:
> > > I hope this is the right list for this, as I saw in the archives there
> > > was already some talk about the applet.
> >
> > this would be nice, i think, though it's obviously up to the comic strip
> > widget maintainer. :) questions:
> >
> > * is there a need for it to be optional, or is it fine to simply always
> > prefetch?
>
> fetching 0-3 comics instead of always fetching exactly one? I say there's
> no
> need for an option.  you'd have to have a pretty limited device or
> connection
> for the download of one or two images to be an issue.
>
> >
> > * if i start at today's strip and start working my way backwards, should
> it
> > pre-fetch the previous comic instead of the next comic? iow, should it
> > prefetch in the direction i navigate until i change navigation?
>
> why not just prefetch both - keep a cache of the current, previous and
> next?
> of couse 99% of the time you'd already have the comic for one direction
> since
> it'd be one you recently visited.
>

This is  good idea. I think one comic in each direction should be enough for
everybody.

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<div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/5 Chani <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:chanika@gmail.com">chanika@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt \
0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On January 4, 2010 15:22:24 Aaron J. \
Seigo wrote:<br> &gt; On January 4, 2010, Miha Čančula wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt; I hope this is the right list for this, as I saw in the archives there<br>
&gt; &gt; was already some talk about the applet.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; this would be nice, i think, though it&#39;s obviously up to the comic strip<br>
&gt; widget maintainer. :) questions:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; * is there a need for it to be optional, or is it fine to simply always<br>
&gt; prefetch?<br>
<br>
</div>fetching 0-3 comics instead of always fetching exactly one? I say there&#39;s \
no<br> need for an option.   you&#39;d have to have a pretty limited device or \
connection<br> for the download of one or two images to be an issue.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; * if i start at today&#39;s strip and start working my way backwards, should \
it<br> &gt; pre-fetch the previous comic instead of the next comic? iow, should \
it<br> &gt; prefetch in the direction i navigate until i change navigation?<br>
<br>
</div>why not just prefetch both - keep a cache of the current, previous and \
next?<br> of couse 99% of the time you&#39;d already have the comic for one direction \
since<br> it&#39;d be one you recently visited.<br></blockquote><div><br>This is   \
good idea. I think one comic in each direction should be enough for everybody.   \
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, \
204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

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