Re: Proposed modules for 2.10 wanted NOW

[Philip Van Hoof <spamfrommailing freax org>]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 23:00 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
 
> > For example the scheduling of anti-virus-scans and backups. The
> > scheduling of a sound alarm. The scheduling of specific events that can
> > be launched by starting a process/application.
> 
> But these things do not exist in the GNOME Desktop yet.
> 
> And if they did, I would expect a UI that was more orientated towards
> those specific goals or tasks rather than one that exposed concepts such
> as cron tabs and at and scripts. However, I have not actually looked at
> this software.

A.t.m. gnome-schedule, in it's current form, has been orientated towards
these specific goals rather than one that exposes the concepts of the
at-daemon and crontab.

For that reason, we have added some meta-data like the title and an icon
to the records. There are, of course, used by gnome-schedule.

We also added what we call "presets". You can, for example, create a
preset for your backup-softwares backup launcher. By selecting the
preset, the user can set a scheduled task very easily. Also a vendor of
such backup-software could add this preset to (it's a GConf setting).

It's a lot like enabling and disabling of schedulable tasks.

The creation of both such presets and crontab/at records have been
simplified, of course. You don't need to know about their format. To set
such a preset, you just have to point and click.

For the advanced user, however, it's still possible to let the software
show some details of the crontab and at-daemon. But also not all of
them. The software will parse existing records, but wont have A title
nor an icon for them available. 



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