asked 2014-01-13 15:25:22 +0300
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In the Home screen max 9 application can be open at the same time. After that launching new applications will move the oldest running app to hidden "state".
What would be the best way to re-activate the hidden applications?
answered 2014-01-22 16:20:44 +0300
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Ram ressources are limited on Jphone. Prompt user to close one minimized app when he tries to minimize th 10th.
Could be a solution, but the N900 were able to run up to 32 apps with 256 Mb of RAM. So I don't think that 10 apps could over-run the Jolla.
TNZ ( 2014-01-22 20:35:31 +0300 )The amount of memory might change with the next device generation and the memory consumption really depends on the app, on the N9 you can have a lot of simple apps running (over 20) without loosing performance or one big which uses all the memory.
bara ( 2014-01-22 20:40:15 +0300 )RAM should not be a problem in practice, since unused applications would be mostly paged out... There are memory hog applications (e.g. web browsers usually are, especially if you keep tabs around), but there are many applications that use little memory, and there is no reason to unload them. Especially since many applications sremain idle most of the time, until the use interacts with them or they interact with the system.
By the way... at the moment my Jolla is running 253 processes, only 6 of which have an application cover. So this is no reason to limit the number of applications.
I can buy the fact that users may not be able to handle more than 10 or so before getting confused... But you may need more than nine occasionally, or you may want to keep one open to keep its state valid.
Also, I can think of a few "apps" for which the cover is all you need to interact with them:
For example a flashlight application could in principle have the cover and nothing else...you turn it on or off with one gesture.
mikelima ( 2014-03-11 15:55:56 +0300 )With sufficient swap-space, a Linux system has no issue with apps that aren't used. I know a guy that starts new desktop screens whenever he needs a new application and is out of space on the current screen. He pulls some apps from older screens to newer ones when he finds he needs them. At re-boot he often ends up having 20-30 desktop screens running old instances of stuff he has forgotten about!
He also puts the entirety of his old harddrive in a folder on any new harddrive he buys, and does this recursively - he has a bit of a use, store, abandon and forget style going on :-)
00prometheus ( 2014-04-15 04:14:42 +0300 )Asked: 2014-01-13 15:25:22 +0300
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@eric - Was it so that also the answers are supposed to be created as Wiki in polls?
Kari ( 2014-01-22 11:21:27 +0300 )@Kari: yes, please see: https://together.jolla.com/question/16697/ thanks!
eric ( 2014-01-22 11:25:18 +0300 )Ok - my mistake it was in too obvious place :)
I'll keep tracking possible new answers more carefully now...
Kari ( 2014-01-22 11:35:44 +0300 )Is a sailor allowed to give us a status about the poll subject ?
TNZ ( 2014-03-11 14:21:15 +0300 )