telling a data engine to reload a source

[Eric Mesa]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:

>
> the plasmoid (almost) never tells the engine when to reload. how can it
> when
> it is simply a visualization of the data? if the visualization knows such
> things, it is not longer a visualization. if the dataengine does not know
> such
> things then it is no longer a true manager of data.
>
> no. the dataengine itself must know when and how to reload data. the only
> thing a visualization can do is request updates every N ms (time based
> updates).
>
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo
>

So what I really should do is set the plasmoid to request updates every
86,400,000 seconds (1 day) if I'd want the data to be fresh every day?

Fair enough,
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Eric Mesa
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