Thunar queued job execution

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Before you start rewriting Thunar or Exo jobs please be aware that these use deprecated API. Glib introducted GTask quite a while ago, and GTask has support for different priorities. Actually a lot of exo functionality is directly available in glib now (but not all of it).
To be honest I am not convinced that any of the Xfce projects should implement different copy modes. This is OS or at least low-level library stuff. We just build a job, how this job is actually processed is not really our concern. Just my 2 cents.

Kind regards

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, 27 October 2015 ar 10:18:56
From: "Stefan Mitić" <corcrash at gmail.com>
To: "Xfce development list" <xfce4-dev at xfce.org>
Subject: Re: Thunar queued job execution
Hi Alex,

first of all thanks for the answer. I have looked into thread management
already and there is currently no way to set thread priority in GLib, that
functionality was remover a long time ago (commit it was removed in
<https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=51d92adeee67d1df30d13fe41e97af9e563f62ec>)
due to its unreliability. There is one way it could work right now but it
would require (as far as I can tell) modifying "xfce/exo" which I would
like to avoid as it is not used by just Thunar and might invoke problems
with other peaces of Xfce using it.

I will try and write a "job manager" over the next few days and commit it
for review and approval.

If you, or anyone else, have any ides on how to solve this differently I
would appreciate any input.

Regards,
Stefan Mitic

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:15 PM Alex <acs82 at gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> your solution-approach sounds ok, however I would solve the issue in a
> different way:
> I would add a "pause" and a "queue" button into the file-transfer-window
> which pops up when tranfering/copying files, where "queue" = pause +
> auto-wakeup when there is no other file-transfere running.
>
> I quess there should be a way to pause thunar-jobs ? .. e.g. minimize
> it's prio, so that it is not scheduled.
>
> That should minimize thread-switching ... so the user would have the
> full freedom to only queue single file-transfere operations on need.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
> On 26.10.2015 14:03, Stefan Mitić wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am trying to implement the following functionality into Thunar:
> >  https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12123
> >
> > The way I understand it the only way to do this would be to create a new
> > class "Thunar job manager" that will take over the management of Thunar
> > jobs and their execution, that way we would be able to have control over
> > the order of execution of jobs.
> >
> > My question is what do you think about this approach and do you have any
> > other ideas to implement this behavior?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Stefan Mitic
> >
> >
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