Hi everybody, I couldn't find any info about any plans of adding this feature and was a bit surprised with that... What I'm about is that I think Gears should let web-apps know about user's inactivity on the computer. Like some simple read-only property filled in with the number of seconds (or minutes) that the user is inactive (no mouse or keyboard activity etc.) for.
I think it is very useful for some web-apps (if not required to compete with some desktop apps) to have this property available. Like any app or website like social network that dealing with users' online status and of course apps like IM clients. So that they could set user's status to 'Away' after some minutes of inactivity like it is possible on most desktop IM-clients. I'm not a desktop programmer but as I understand implementing this function should not be hard as Gears should probably just read some OS public variable and make its value available to web apps... Any thoughts..? Thanks, Jey
