Comments on: Inhibiting http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/ Life is what you make it, that's why I'm trying my best Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:59:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Michael "C++" Howell http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-124 Michael "C++" Howell Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:52:40 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-124 @Gordon: That's why the inhibit function returns an integer. @Gordon: That’s why the inhibit function returns an integer.

]]> By: slougi http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-123 slougi Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:17:45 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-123 What's the use case for this? What happens when an app that suppressed sleep crashes? What’s the use case for this? What happens when an app that suppressed sleep crashes?

]]> By: Gordon Mckeown http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-122 Gordon Mckeown Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:15:09 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-122 Looks great! How does it handle multiple applications trying to manage inhibition? For example; what if I had a video window and a presentation window both running? Looks great! How does it handle multiple applications trying to manage inhibition? For example; what if I had a video window and a presentation window both running?

]]> By: Michael "Blog" Howell http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-121 Michael "Blog" Howell Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:07:48 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-121 @hmm: There have been blogs (w/screenshots) about the notification plasmoid (a.k.a. plasma style). @hmm: There have been blogs (w/screenshots) about the notification plasmoid (a.k.a. plasma style).

]]> By: sebas http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-120 sebas Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:37:13 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-120 @hmm top-secret right now, have some patience :-) @hmm top-secret right now, have some patience :-)

]]> By: hmm http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-119 hmm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:14:18 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-119 @sebas: What does the plasma style look like? @sebas: What does the plasma style look like?

]]> By: sebas http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-118 sebas Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:10:55 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-118 @Jason, @Khashayar, @Robert: I assume that this call *does* use DBus, internally http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/dbus-interface.html powerdevil is already pretty close to implementing this spec nicely. Some work on the interfaces remains to be done, interoperability should not be a problem (i.e. KDE apps under GNOME 'just working', and GNOME apps under KDE in the same way. @hmm: In trunk/, you can also get knotify plasma-style @mat69: That's the plan :> @ThomasK: The packagemanager would inhibit suspend for as long as it's busy and then release the lock, the machine will then start idle time suspending @Jason, @Khashayar, @Robert: I assume that this call *does* use DBus, internally
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/dbus-interface.html
powerdevil is already pretty close to implementing this spec nicely. Some work on the interfaces remains to be done, interoperability should not be a problem (i.e. KDE apps under GNOME ‘just working’, and GNOME apps under KDE in the same way.

@hmm: In trunk/, you can also get knotify plasma-style

@mat69: That’s the plan :>

@ThomasK: The packagemanager would inhibit suspend for as long as it’s busy and then release the lock, the machine will then start idle time suspending

]]> By: Thomas K http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-117 Thomas K Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:29:48 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-117 You mentioned package managers and the like--will it also be possible to do something like "delaying suspension until task complete (ETA 1:27)"? You mentioned package managers and the like–will it also be possible to do something like “delaying suspension until task complete (ETA 1:27)”?

]]> By: mat69 http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-116 mat69 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:20:49 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-116 Hmm, wouldn't it be better if watching a video automatically sets the "Presentation profile", where you don't get a screensaver and automatically suspending is deactivated as long as the video lasts? Or where you'd call a function with flags (in fact that would not be in Solid then) --> iAmAFunction( NoScreenSaver | NoSuspend | NoGeneralNotification ) and iWantToExplain( ki8n("Because I want to discharge your batteries, hahahah") ) Yeah, I don't have a clue how to do that. :D Nevertheless very good that you give developers the chance to have us finish watching our videos. :) Though I agree that there should be an option like "ignore per apps settings and allways suspend ...", maybe with a tooltip what could happen. Hmm, wouldn’t it be better if watching a video automatically sets the “Presentation profile”, where you don’t get a screensaver and automatically suspending is deactivated as long as the video lasts?
Or where you’d call a function with flags (in fact that would not be in Solid then) –> iAmAFunction( NoScreenSaver | NoSuspend | NoGeneralNotification )
and
iWantToExplain( ki8n(“Because I want to discharge your batteries, hahahah”) )

Yeah, I don’t have a clue how to do that. :D

Nevertheless very good that you give developers the chance to have us finish watching our videos. :) Though I agree that there should be an option like “ignore per apps settings and allways suspend …”, maybe with a tooltip what could happen.

]]> By: hmm http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/inhibiting/#comment-115 hmm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:53:09 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-115 Does any of you find KNotify extremely ugly and out of place on the KDE4 desktop? Does any of you find KNotify extremely ugly and out of place on the KDE4 desktop?

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