Preferences

Participants can create "preference sets" describing their resource usage policy. A preference set includes the following:

• Whether work (computation and network transfer) should be done while that host is in use (i.e. while keyboard and mouse events are going on).
• Whether work should be done while the computer is being powered by batteries.
• How much disk space should be used by BOINC.
• How much network bandwidth should be used.

A user can maintain multiple preference sets, and can independently associate hosts with preference sets.

These preferences apply uniformly to all projects.

In addition, projects can define their own application-specific preferences (e.g., choice of color scheme). This needs to be fleshed out.