Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[Reuben Thomas]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, address@hidden wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:58:42PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Juri Linkov wrote:
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> > > I'm not sure an idle timer is good for this feature.  I want to auto-save
> > > the desktop at quite long time intervals [...]
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> > Why do you want to save at such long intervals? Is there a performance
> > problem with just using the idle timer? [...]
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> Disk spin-up on laaptops comes to mind. The longer the intervals the
> longer bettery (and disk!) life.

That argument applies to any auto-save, not just desktop. I'm trying to work 
out why one would want one interval for auto-save and another for desktop 
save.