On Thursday 02 October 2008 18:31:46 Kevin Ottens wrote: > Le Thursday 02 October 2008, Sebastian Kügler a écrit : > > The whole point of this feature (besides apps getting it right over time) > > is to have it at your fingertips. Maybe we should also inhibit the > > screensaver, and dpms and call it "presentation mode" or something. I'm > > not overly happy with the current label. > > So why isn't it a profile in the first place? I really don't see a need to > special case the inhibit, and it'll definitely be error prone. Its > mechanism and behavior is really "temporarily suppress sleep, I'll tell you > as soon as I'm done", which is suited for computerized tasks. The profiles > are better user oriented since you tell "ok, I want this mode now" and the > behavior follow.
I agree that a profile is the way to go. We should add a "presentation" profile to the powerdevil defaults. Dario, is that OK with you? > Playing with inhibits we'll have a nasty mix of user needs and application > hints... > > > Another option for most of those usecases would be to replace this > > checkbox with the spinner where you set idle time suspend. > > It'd be slightly better, but again it calls for having it on profiles IMO. Yes, inhibit suspend doesn't cover a couple of other things that should just work, such as dpms. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9
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