[maemo-developers] suspendprocess - poor man's power save

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 17:58, Robin Burchell <viroteck at viroteck.net> wrote:
>
> Anyway: this was pretty much in keeping with my idea: move it into the task
> switcher (hildon-desktop/other) so that applications which are moved to
> background are stopped (unless they signal for whatever reason that they
> need to be kept running, but I'm not even sure that is necessary: if
> you really need to do background processing constantly, why do it in a
> GUI application?)

I suggested something similar three years ago (wow, Maemo's old ;-))
and the reaction was less favourable:

    http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/users/26337

For example, Igor Stoppa wrote:
>
> You are proposing a shortcut that is encouraging crappy code to be
> written, since the system will always take care of saying: "psst,
> pretend to be a properly written piece of code".
>
> If an application has nothing to do, it _must_ be blocked waiting for
> something, such as an event, a timer, whatever it cares about, nothing
> else.

Personally, I think it'd still be useful; without going to the
(almost) co-operative multi-tasking of iOS.

Cheers,

Andrew

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