Re: [gpm] cpu idle / hot corners

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> So while I couldn't figure out why g-p-m weren't putting my system to
> sleep Richard told me on IRC that there's some code to avoid putting the
> system to sleep when the CPU is not idle. 
>
> Richard mentions something along the lines that this is useful if you're
> compiling a kernel or running a simulation or something.
>
> I think it's crack and I'd like to polite ask for this feature to be
> removed. In fact, I'd advocate that things like Beagle or other indexing
> jobs should run exactly when the system is idle (they should of course
> just get this from g-p-m via the session bus), e.g. when the user appear
> not to be using it. However, this means that we will never ever suspend.
>
> What you want is for g-p-m / g-s to simply implement "Hot Corners" as on
> Mac OS X. This would allow power users to configure the system to never
> suspend / inhibit screen saver when the mouse pointer is in e.g. the
> top-right corner. See this link for details
>
>  http://nsweb.lane.edu/netservices/machelp/osx/screen_passwd_P/
>
>
> Ideally we'd share the "Hot Corners" dialog between g-p-m and g-s and
> maybe other things as well. Perhaps it could be a library? I've copied
> the screen saver list for further discussion.
>
> Thanks for considering this.
I like the idea of hot corners. Since according to fitts law the corners 
should contain also contain stuff like the show desktop button I think 
there needs to be some delay.

I guess we need to make a hot corners capplet and integrate the 
functionality into gnome-settings daemon. IMHO it would be a great 
addition for GNOME 2.16.

Jaap