[Kde-pim] Re: two itemChanged signals fired by Akonadi::Monitor for a single modifyJob

[Stephen Kelly]

Christian Mollekopf wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:22:07 Kevin Krammer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Wednesday, 2010-12-22, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I am trying to detect if an Akonadi::Item changed because of the
>> > Akonadi::ItemModifyJob which I issued, or because another program
>> > changed the Item.
>> 
>> What is the larger use case at hand, i.e. why do you need to decide who
>> change the item.
> 
> I have an editor for a note (Akonotes resource), and I want to do periodic
> autosaves. For the case that the item was modified from outside, i monitor
> the item for a change, and in case of a change I update the editor
> content. If I make now an autosave from this editor, I don't want to
> update the content of the editor (because the cursor would move) since it
> is already up to date.

You can run your autosave jobs in a custom session, and not monitor that 
session.

myMonitor->ignoreSession(m_autosaveSession);

http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdepimlibs-
apidocs/akonadi/html/classAkonadi_1_1Monitor.html#a2a9b82068b614c07e5d5d1f95a30a6f4

Cheers,

Steve.

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