Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of PrefsUnification

Timestamp:

Dec 2, 2014, 5:11:49 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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PrefsUnification

@@ -27 +27 @@
 It's kind of a toss-up, except that I think that it's slightly more natural
 to express time-of-day and time-of-week prefs positively.
-So let's go with positive across the board.
+That's how it's stored in the DB,
+and it would be a pain to invert it in the UI.
+So I lean slightly toward positive.
 
-However, we need to say things precisely.
+whichever way we choose, we need to say things precisely.
 The current GUI wording (positive) is imprecise in two ways:
 
@@ -39 +41 @@
 
  * Run CPU tasks when all the following hold:
-  * the computer is plugged in, not running on batteries (laptops only)
-  * the computer is idle
+  * [x] the computer is plugged in, not running on batteries (laptops only)
+  * [x] the computer is idle
   * the time of day is between X and Y
-  * other CPU usage is less then X%
+  * other CPU usage is less than X%
  * Run GPU tasks if the above conditions hold, and
-  * the computer is idle [this can be disabled if the CPU idle setting is set]
+  * [x] the computer is idle [this can be disabled if the CPU idle setting is set]
  * "Idle" means no mouse or keyboard input in last X minutes
+
+Negative prefs would look like:
+ * Run tasks all the time except when
+  * [x] the computer is on batteries (laptops only)
+  * [x] the computer is in use
+  * the time of day is not between X and Y
+  * other CPU usage is greater than X%
+ * In addition, don't run GPU tasks when
+  * [x] the computer is in use (disable if the above "computer in use" is set)
+ * "In use" means mouse or keyboard input in last X minutes