[Chandler-dev] Compaction feature

[Davor Cubranic]

A minor usability point: how about "Compact now" and "Later" instead of 
"OK/Cancel"?


On Thu, 17 May 2007, Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Reid Ellis wrote:
>> 
>> I would hope that this dialog requires zero interaction -- no "Okay" 
>> button or anything. Just a "Cancel" in case you don't want to do it now? 
>> So it runs and closes itself?
>
> You're hoping wrong. It's one of those pesky ok/cancel dialogs.
> To be clear, I hate popups as much as anyone, what is the alternative ?
> Running a compaction in the background, while technically possible, would 
> slow it down considerably while making chandler itself pretty sluggish.
>
> If there are enough people unhappy with this 'courtesy' dialog, I can add a 
> pref to not have it. Periodically, every 7 days, your chandler would go away 
> for a little (or not so little) while, without notice.
>
> I was also thinking of adding a similar 'courtesy' dialog, this time with a 
> 'shut up forever' option, that would suggest a repository backup to be done.
> (a true backup, not a dump).
>
> A backup is much less disruptive than a compact, it's mostly just copying 
> (large) files around. I was thinking of adding an option to do a backup on a 
> regular basis in the background. The only caveat is that each backup is a 
> full backup of the repo and that can chew up a fair amount of diskspace.
>
> Opinions ?
>
> Andi..
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