Re: gnome-screensaver 0.0.23

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 16:47 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> 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.

There's no "activity detection" is g-s-d, there's keyboard activity
detection in the typing-break binary though.

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