2010/1/19 Christian Rüb <[email protected]>:
> On Tuesday, 19. January 2010 04:31:10 Robin Paulson wrote:
>> hi,
>> several times when i've been using my om to make gps tracks, i've
>> forgotten to turn off auto-suspend, and have lost part of the track i
>> was logging
>>
>> would it be possible to add options to the gps section of shr-settings which
>> (a) in the case where tracks are being logged, the machine is
>> prevented from suspending entirely and,
>
> I think this would be difficult - how would you detect for any application if 
> it is just writing a track log?
> IMHO this should either be done by the application (request CPU) or as a 
> workaround you set it with fsoraw in the corresponding desktop file.

this is correct, you're dead right.

marcus, would it be possible to incorporate this into a future release
of tangogps?


> If you are doing in a desktop file, your phone will never suspend though as 
> long as the app is running.

yes, that's intended

>
>> (b) in the case where gps is being used but no log being made, the
>> phone is suspended while the gps remains active?
>>
>> thanks
>

i think this could be an OS level option, perhaps in
shr-settings/position. i recall there was an option, maybe in the gps
interface, that specifically provided for this?

shr/fso devs, any chance it could be included?

cheers
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