On 5/7/05, Liam R. E. Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 18:30 -0700, Kirk Bridger wrote: > > I'm still not clear on when a user should ever have to "restart a > > screensaver". That makes no real sense for a desktop. > > Maybe you never play games or watch videos or listen to music > with visualization? :-) > > It would probably make more sense for Totem to disable the > screensaver while it's running, same with other programs, > but the mechanism to do that isn't altogether clear right now. > > > > An alternative to > > > disabling the screensaver, would be an option to disable the locking > > > of the screen. any thoughts?? > > There are more use cases for disabling the screensaver that I can see > than for stopping it from locking. > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin > Pictures from old books: http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/ > IRC (chat) programs: www.ircreviews.org/clients/ > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability >
Basically the screensaver needs to accept a dbus message to freeze, and the programs need to pass it. I suspect if the 1st is implemented, the 2nd will come along in due course. Corey _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
