Re: gnome-screensaver 0.0.23

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:40 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> yes, indeed sounds more reasonable.

I think this makes most sense. The idle detection stuff in g-s-d is not
easy to fix, perhaps best to change users to the new g-s API and rip the
broken stuff out of g-s-d.

Richard.