ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 May 2014 11:14, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 20.05.2014, 15:50 -0700 schrieb Robert Park:
>> Hey ogra,
>>
>> Sorry I meant to reply to this sooner. Do you know if Friends is
>> impacted by this? I know Friends does download a bunch of data and
>> caches it in the home directory upon startup, however I think it might
>> slip under the radar here because it doesn't actually autostart on
>> login (yet...).
>>
>> Let me know if I need to do anything specific with Friends here, thanks.
>>
> replying in public since i think other app devs might be interested in
> that as well ...
>
> the first and foremost target of this move is to bring up enough of the
> session to be able to tell the user his disk is full and needs room made
> and also to make sure he/she can still make emergency calls ...
>
> that said, apps should not crash hard but fail gracefully if they can
> not write to their config dirs in the users home, so that you do not end
> up with a ton of crash reports just because the home dir was 100%
> full ... I consider this part a nice to have thing though as long as an
> app does not prevent the session itself from starting.

Why is it actually a problem? On android, if you are lucky, you do get
to home screen with no widgets running with every app triggering popup
"out of disk space". And popups of apps and services crashing.
If app crashes due to no disk space, it's not app's repsonsibility to
not handle this as an error & notify user. Instead life-cycle
management / shell should do that.
On the desktop we get notify popups when reaching the limits of disk
space, has it been investigated to provide something like that on
touch, yet?

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.