Re: gnome-screensaver 0.0.23

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi,

Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > hmm, IIRC, the typing break in gnome-settings-daemon does idle
> > detection, so maybe we should be using that instead of having it on the
> > screensaver? The problem is the typing break does not have any DBUS
> > interface, so it would need to be added.
>  
> I like the idea of having this in gnome settings daemon. IIRC g-s-d only
> looks at the keyboard and not at the mouse. So mouse idleness should be
> added as well

What is the advantage of having it in gnome-settings-daemon?

At the moment gnome-settings-daemon doesn't have idle detection.  It has 
a very crude type of activity detection.

In order to decouple idle detection from the screensaver you will need 
to solve a number of tricky technical problems.  How do you handle 
"inhibitors"?  How do you handle races between idle and screensaver 
activation states?  What is the sequence of events when the lock screen 
button is pressed?  How do you do idle activation warnings?  And so on.

Seems more reasonable to make the typing break program gnome-screensaver 
aware.

Jon