Allow user to specify the update frequency

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Precipitate seems to update every hour; but I don't update my bookmarks or
documents that often; could we have a input box to specify the update
frequency?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by patm...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2008 at 3:42

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Sorry, didn't mean to mark as defect.

Original comment by patm...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2008 at 3:43

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The amount of work done when nothing has changed is minimal; what advantage 
would
there be to being able to change the interval?

Original comment by stuart.morgan on 7 Jul 2008 at 4:04

• Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Some users may get aggravated at the keychain prompt every hour; yes, you could 
click 'Always allow', but the 
more paranoid among us (e.g. Little Snitch users) may not like that either.

Original comment by patm...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2008 at 1:35

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The reason there is a keychain prompt is because you entered the password in the
system preferences pane, but there's a background agent that actually does the 
work.
Both the pane and the agent are part of Precipitate, both open-source, both 
written
by me, both part of the same download, etc., so there's absolutely no reason to 
trust
the background agent less than the preference pane.

You have in fact reduced your security by having to manually allow it every 
time,
since it means that someone could replace the application with a malicious one 
and
you would allow that new application access to your password when it asked since
you'd have no way of knowing that it changed, where as by trusting it once, 
you'd
know immediately if it changed without your knowledge because you'd suddenly be
prompted for no reason.

I'm not going to add a preference just for the case of users deliberately 
choosing to
make the experience more annoying and less secure; were there any other reasons?

Original comment by stuart.morgan on 9 Jul 2008 at 2:29

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I personally do not let my session keychain open, so it's always annoying to 
enter my
password every hour, even more when I'm watching a movie or making a 
presentation.

But your app is great :D 

Original comment by alexandr...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2008 at 11:02

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I forgot to marked this fixed with r37. The hidden pref is UpdateInterval (in 
the
domain com.googlecode.precipitate), and takes a value in minutes.

Original comment by stuart.morgan on 5 Oct 2008 at 5:31

• Changed state: Fixed