Hi David, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 10:07 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: > >>Hi Waldo, >> >>Bastian, Waldo wrote: >> >>>The screensaver interface looks good. What is the use case for the >>>"Poke" method? >> >>The Poke method is a way to simulate user input. It is the programmatic >>equivalent to moving the mouse back and forth or hitting the Shift key >>or something. If the screensaver is activated and the lock is enabled >>then it will prompt for authentication. If the screensaver is activated >>and the lock is disabled then it will deactivate the screensaver. If >>the screensaver is not active (ie. blanked) then it will reset the idle >>timers. > > > Notably this is used by gnome-power-manager when resuming from a suspend > state, yes? > > For example, the user opens the laptop lid (and is careful not to hit > the keyboard or mouse), g-p-m gets notified and pokes the screensaver > and either the session comes back (if lock is disabled) or the unlock > dialog is shown. Without the poke this probably wouldn't happen.
Oh right Waldo asked for a use case. :) Yes, your example is a good one. Thanks, Jon _______________________________________________ Kde-hardware-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-hardware-devel
