On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:04 PM, sam tygier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20/03/10 23:44, Tom Hacohen wrote: > >> What do you think? Please share your thoughts. >> -- >> Tom. >> > > an idea i have heard people talk about, but never seen implemented is a > smart timeout for dimming/blanking. > > start with an initial timeout of 30 seconds. > after the timeout has elapsed, have a special period of maybe 5 second. > if the user pokes the screen in this special period, then they probably did > not want the screen to blank (maybe the are reading or watching something), > so increase the timeout. > if they did not poke the screen in the special period, then they were happy > with the blanking, so shorten the timeout. > > have limits at each end eg, so it can't go below 10 seconds or above 5 mins > > sam > > > _______________________________________________ > It's a nice idea, for too much hassle for something not *that* useful, because when you are reading you will probably ask the screen (either automatically or manually). A nice feature (that e also has) is: if someone touched the screen immediately after going to dim, this probably means he's doing something, so a popup opens and asks if he wants to request the screen resource (terminology is different in e, but it's the same idea.) -- Tom.
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