Review Request 126627: Replace screensaver inhibition by direct dbus calls

[Thomas Lübking]

> On Jan. 4, 2016, 10:07 p.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Don't we really have something other than this complex code for apps to use? It'd be sad to see people copy&pasting this with subtle mistakes all over :/
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> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     There is a thing in solid that is unfinished (there's a big chunk
>     of code with "WITH_NEW_POWER_ASYNC_API" cmake switch) and apparently
>     no solid maintainer to actually finished it.
>     
>     On the other hand, this ain't no complex code, it's a simple dbus
>     call with storing the reply and another dbus call sending the stored
>     reply. It's a long boring code, but not complex.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     we could use your code to turn it into a library ;-)

Like adding a PowerManagement flag to KNotificationRestrictions as well as a new constructor
KNotificationRestrictions(QString reason, Services control=NonCriticalServices, QObject *parent=0)

Seems a natural solution =)


- Thomas


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On Jan. 4, 2016, 8:25 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 4, 2016, 8:25 p.m.)
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> Review request for Gwenview and Kai Uwe Broulik.
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> Bugs: 334525
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334525
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> Repository: gwenview
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> Description
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> This is a better approach to fix bug 334525 than
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125910/ which forces
> a default reason (which is user visible).
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> With this new patch Gwenview will set a proper reason
> why is it inhibitting the screensaver ("Full Screen Presentation")
> and will use the DBus directly rather than the obsolete
> KNotificationRestrictions API.
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> Diffs
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>   app/mainwindow.cpp 7b30c4e 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126627/diff/
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> Testing
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> PowerDevil correctly shows that Gwenview is inhibitting
> the PM because "Full Screen Presentation".
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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