Flashing BOINC icon
18 Nov 2004 16:58:14 UTC
Topic 187115
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Is it just me, or does the BOINC icon flash with an 'i' symbol after every successful completion of a work unit? Do I need to be told about this? Surely it would be less distracting if BOINC only alerted the user if something went wrong, and intervention may be required. I'm only running E@H so I don't know if this is project specific or not.
Flashing BOINC icon
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afaik the boic client sets the "i" when there are new messages from communication with the server (even when successful). So if you are permanently online this should be the messages about uploading the result. And, yes, this is a feature of the BOINC client, not of einstein@home.
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> it would be less
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> it would be less distracting if BOINC only alerted the user if something went
> wrong, and intervention may be required.
BOINC will flash the I in red rather than blue when there's a problem. So far with Einstein that is pretty rare.
I do not have a flashing Icon
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I do not have a flashing Icon in 4.5x under any circumstances. I think that this has gone away.
BOINC WIKI
> I do not have a flashing
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> I do not have a flashing Icon in 4.5x under any circumstances. I think that
> this has gone away.
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Where did you get the 4.5x from?
> Where did you get the 4.5x
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> Where did you get the 4.5x from?
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It's Alpha for the BOINC platform.
> > Where did you get the
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> > Where did you get the 4.5x from?
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> It's Alpha for the BOINC platform.
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oh, does anybody know when it will be released for everybody?
What are the changes in it, compared to 4.13?
And why is the change 4.13->4.5x and not 4.13->4.14? Did I miss something?
Thanks
> oh, does anybody know when
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> oh, does anybody know when it will be released for everybody?
It'll still be quite a wait for a production release.
There's a rather nasty upload bug in the 4.55 release, so it's not advisable for this to be run on projects. The bug has been found, but we're waiting for the next release to test it.
> What are the changes in it, compared to 4.13?
Two major differences.
The core client is split into a service (BOINC) and a gui (BOINC Manager).
A completely revamped installer, based on MS Installer.
> And why is the change 4.13->4.5x and not 4.13->4.14? Did I miss
> something?
Don't know for sure, but I guess it's because of the client being split into a service/gui. This is quite a different direction and the version numbers reflect it is such.
> It'll still be quite a wait
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> It'll still be quite a wait for a production release.
> There's a rather nasty upload bug in the 4.55 release, so it's not advisable
> for this to be run on projects. The bug has been found, but we're waiting for
> the next release to test it.
Also there is no way of displaying screensaver graphics with thr e4.5x series.
The linux client gui part finally compliles today and looks good. on my Redhat FC3 Box.
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> > What are the changes in it, compared to 4.13?
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> Two major differences.
> The core client is split into a service (BOINC) and a gui (BOINC Manager).
> A completely revamped installer, based on MS Installer.
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> > And why is the change 4.13->4.5x and not 4.13->4.14? Did I miss
> > something?
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> Don't know for sure, but I guess it's because of the client being split into a
> service/gui. This is quite a different direction and the version numbers
> reflect it is such.
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Changes are as stated:
- Revamped MSI installer
- Origional boinc gui split into a core that runs as a windows service or as a daemon progrma on linux
- Revamped Boinc Manager on all platforms (linux one noe complies as at today), that cna control a locla boinc cc or a remote client.
Work in progress:
- Display of screen saver graphics from the boinc worker process as a saperate process.
- Squishing of small existing bugs.
- Further work on Max OS X client compile.
73 de Peter VK3AVE
I believe that the reason for
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I believe that the reason for the large gap is the possibility of interim releases on the monolithic branch to fix some bug that may yet be discovered that is deemed bad enough.
BOINC WIKI
> - Origional boinc gui split
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> - Origional boinc gui split into a core that runs as a windows service or as a
> daemon progrma on linux
Hopefully they remember that there is quite a few Win98 boxen involved in BOINC... And that Win98 doesn't do services.