Re: [gpm] Power Manager Upgrade

[Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 21:17 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 23:31 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> >
> > It already does this! When your session is idle (by default after 10
> > minutes) it dims your screen down to 30%.
> 
> Actually, I don't find the current behavior useful. g-p-m really should
> dim the display after say 30 seconds or 1 minute, I think that's the
> expected usage.

The important part here is that we need to _not_ do it sometimes.
Inactivity isn't the only indicator -- consider playing a DVD.

>  And, btw, no need to make this value configurable from
> the UI. 

Why not?

-- 
  Peter