On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 19:54 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 02:01 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > > o Track when the user is idle (and inform other apps) > > - applications can do batch processing when user is idle > > - downloading email messages (evolution) > > - rebuilding indexes (updatedb, makewhatis) > > - rearranging sectors for optimized boot etc. > > How can we define idle? Do we take into account: > > 1. CPU > 2. Disk activity > 3. Network activity > > or all of them? How can we get this information in a > arch/driver/system-independent way?
I wrote "when user is idle", e.g. when the user hasn't used the keyboard or moved the mouse for a while. I'd suggest looking at the xscreensaver daemon; I'm pretty sure the X server can tell you. > > o The end-user preferences capplet should have the notion of profiles > > only if there is more than one power source > > - running on mains / running on laptop battery / running on UPS > > Why do we need profiles? Can not the veto stuff automatically set > different modes through logic? > When I'm sitting in the park and my laptop is running on battery I want it to suspend after 10 minutes. When it's plugged into mains at work I want it to be two hours. Look at the XvsXP site I posted in my original mail for more examples. > Is what I've done currently the right sort of profile thing or is there > a better way. Please elaborate. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
