Re: [gpm] Usability bug: minimum of timeout sliders set to screensaver time out + 1

["Jaap Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On 4/7/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 13:23 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I actually found it weird that the minimum time for blanking the
> > screen was 11 minutes. Later on I discovered this was caused by
> > gnome-screensaver which was set to 10 minutes and that gpm uses 10+1
> > as a minimum
>
> Yes a few people have said this.
>
> > I understand that it does not make sense to start the screensaver
> > after blanking the screen or putting the computer to sleep, but the
> > current behavior is very confusing. I wanted to set the blanking time
> > to 5 minutes but the minimum was 11 and I did not have any clue what I
> > should do to get it to 5.
>
> It is explained in the help file, but I do appreciate that users do not
> usually read help files.
>
> > IMHO the sliders of gpm it would be less confusing to not let time out
> > sliders in gpm depend on timeout settings of gnome screensaver.
>
> I originally had this in 2.14.x IIRC. I got emails and bugs saying that
> "I set g-p-m to blank after 10 minutes and it took 20 minutes to turn
> off my screen".

This behavior I do not understand. Was gpm kicking in 10 minutes after
the screen saver?

* Proposed improvement

I think the most logical way would be to have gnome screen saver and
gnome power manager looking independently at the idle time. They both
would just kick in when the time out specified in their settings is
reached. Of course gpm could turn off the screensaver  when the
display goes to sleep, but the timeouts should be completely
independent.

gnome screensaver and gnome power manager should just give an
unobtrusive warning when the timeouts are set such that the
screensaver does kick in after display sleep.