Re: Fwd: [Usability] Technical language in applet menus

[Matthew Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

Corey Burger wrote:
> On 5/7/05, Liam R. E. Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:
> ...
> > Maybe you never play games or watch videos or listen to music
> > with visualization? :-)
> >
> > It would probably make more sense for Totem to disable the
> > screensaver while it's running, same with other programs,
> > but the mechanism to do that isn't altogether clear right now.
> ...
> Basically the screensaver needs to accept a dbus message to freeze,
> and the programs need to pass it. I suspect if the 1st is implemented,
> the 2nd will come along in due course.
> ...

That would be great. In addition, Mac OS X 
<http://alexandros.roussos.free.fr/macosxrumors/images/030629/Expose_prefs.jpg> 
(as well as the "Hot Corners" shareware for Windows 
<http://www.southbaypc.com/HotCorners/screenshot.gif>) lets you 
deactivate the screensaver by resting the pointer in one corner pixel of 
the screen. (They also let you turn on the screensaver immediately by 
resting the pointer in another corner pixel.) If you're watching a movie 
full-screen you're likely to move the pointer into the corner to get it 
out of the way anyway, so this technique is easy to remember.

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Matthew Thomas
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