Thunar queued job execution

[Stefan Mitić]

Yup, saw that.

If that is the case with the job/task manager, and as I am planing to try
and get involved with the development of Xfce (if I may :D ), maybe I could
take over rewriting of the whole job/task management system so that it uses
the new GTask API.

If it can't be included in the 4.14 release maybe it can make it into some
future release.

Now to be honest with you guys I came to this task as part of my job of
which I can't say much more (for now) but includes some research for the
improvement of open source project funding and development. But aside from
that I have been trying to get into open source development for some time
now as I am a daily user of Arch Linux (both professionally and personally)
and Xfce as my main desktop environment. I would like to give back to the
community and as a Software Engineer (currently final year of university)
with a decent project background myself I think I should be well equipped
for that.

Regards,
Stefan Mitic

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 1:21 PM <flo.xfce at gmx-topmail.de> wrote:

> I wasn't saying that we should keep exo's (and therefore Thunar's)
> job/task management. A port to GTask is definitly worth it (but not planned
> for the 4.14 release and that's fine). Have a look at
> https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GTask.html#g-task-run-in-thread.
> Especially the description.
>
> -----Original message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 October 2015 at 11:20:31
> From: "Stefan Mitić" <corcrash at gmail.com>
> To: "Xfce development list" <xfce4-dev at xfce.org>
> Subject: Re: Re: Thunar queued job execution
> Hi flo, OmegaPhil,
>
> flo, thanks for the heads-up, I was aware of that and that's why I plan to
> avoid changing anything related to how Xfce handles tasks/jobs. My idea is
> to add something like a scheduler that will take care of when a Thunar job
> is run/created. After the creation of the job everything is left to the
> underlying systems. This should avoid problems with any other system also
> relying on Exo or any other underlying system.
>
> OmegaPhil, I will certainly do that before I start working on the
> implementation. Thanks for this link/resource, I tried to find some file
> manager with that capability but wasn't able to.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan Mitic
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:58 AM <flo.xfce at gmx-topmail.de> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
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