Hi everyone, It appears to me that how Gnome Power Manager determines whether the computer idle before it suspends/hibernates could be better designed. I understand that it is each application's responsibility to inhibit the computer from sleeping while in use ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePowerManagerInactiveSleep ), however there are so few Gnome apps that actually implement this properly that I'm beginning to believe there must be a better way of doing this.
Just a few example of Gnome putting the computer to sleep while doing stuff, these are off the top of my head and go alongside countless others that I've come across: - Firefox when playing Flash. - VLC when playing music. - Kino while capturing video through firewire. - Synaptic Package Manager while downloading packages! - While copying files in Nautilus! This is pretty basic laptop stuff, and since equivalent bugs haven't been reported on Windows and that generally I've never come across these problems, I would conclude that they've found a more effective way of implementing this. Are there any plans to look at the design of the suspend/hibernate mechanisms that Gnome implements and re-work them? What consensus has been reached regarding this issue already? Thanks, Alex
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