Re: [gpm] Slider timeouts

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 23:07 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 18:24 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Opinions please : "Display sleep timeout range not large enough"
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340843
> > 
> > Do you think this should remain at 1 hour, or be increased?
> > 
> I would say remain at 1 hour.
> 
> The bug reporter likes to have 2 hours because he likes the monitor not
> to turn off during his lunch break, because he thinks that the life of
> his monitor will decrease because the monitor going to sleep and waking
> up again. I doubt if that's true.

I'm sure that it's not. Energy star compliant monitor are designed for
frequent on/off/standby cycles and do not wear out in this way.

>   Furthermore he could just set it to
> never and just turn off the monitor at the end of the day.
> 
> Also if we change it to two hours, I'll bet there will be a bug report
> coming which says they want 3 hours, 

That's what I was erring on. Thanks.

Richard.