Fwd: Problem with the idle detection

[Toms <toms baugis gmail com>]

scuzi, forgot the list


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From: Toms <toms baugis gmail com>
Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with the idle detection
To: Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn bjerkem googlemail com>


Your script runs fine here on ubuntu 9.4 (gnome 2.26)
You could look into screensaver code to see when the
getsessionidletime has been added.

Popups are quite bad for UI as they steal users focus.
You might want to try to play with slide out notifications in the
hamster applet dropdown. Something like what happens when a file open
in gedit has been edited - you get that yellow thing offering you
refresh, and other stuff.

Something like "You were idle for x minutes <Keep tracking> <Stop before idle>"

The wording could use some brains though, ehehe.
Also what happens, when i was idle, then resumed and only a while
noticed that hamster has stopped tracking (as i told it to)?
And what would be the expected switch behavior in this case?

Uh, good luck Svenn, i hope you will come up with something that
blends in just perfectly :)
Also, don't be afraid to rip out stuff I you feel that your solution is better.

Toms



On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Svenn Are
Bjerkem<svenn bjerkem googlemail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am playing with the idle detection in idle.py
>
> In ipython I type:
>
> import dbus
> from dbus.lowlevel import Message
> import gconf
>
> bus = dbus.SessionBus()
> gs = bus.get_object('org.gnome.ScreenSaver', '/org/gnome/ScreenSaver')
> idle_time = gs.GetSessionIdleTime()
>
> and get
>
> DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method
> "GetSessionIdleTime" with signature "" on interface "(null)" doesn't
> exist
>
> I wonder if anybody else could test this and see what result they get.
> I am running gnome 2.26 on Debian unstable. I checked out the code
> from hamster git repository to see if current code is different from
> the code which the hamster-applet in sid is based on. (2.26.2)
>
> I want to experiment with idle detect to make hamster post a dialog
> when I have been idle for more than 5 minutes. In this dialog I want
> to be able to move the time passed since the idle to another project,
> or to continue timing as if nothing happened, or discard the idle time
> as a break, not booking time.
>
> Kind regards,
> --
> Svenn
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