What's better? Disconnecting a Timer's timeout signal or stopping the Timer?

Astronova

Say there's a node that listens to a Timer's timeout signal, this node conditionally stops and starts this timer. Messing around I noticed that this can be achieved either by starting/stopping the timer, or by connecting/disconnecting from this signal.

I would assume that using timer.start() and timer.stop() makes the code more readable. I'm just wondering if there are any advantages or disadvantages on manipulating the signal listener instead of using the Timer's methods.

Megalomaniak

Disconnecting the timer probably makes more sense if you intend to drive multiple things from the same timer and in sync. So then you can disconnect a specific thing from it if you want to temporarily stop just that thing, while stopping the timer would stop all the things. At least that's how I think of it.