Fwd: Re: Turning off screensavers [xarafaxz at nxxx: KMplayer feature request]

[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 17:22, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> Perşembe 12 Ocak 2006 15:40 tarihinde, Lubos Lunak şunları yazmıştı:
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  what would be the right place for this in trunk (this =  a function that
> > apps like movie players could use to turn screensaving on/off)? I'll
> > probably add it to 3.5.1 too, there I can simply dump it to KApplication,
> > but I don't know where to put it for KDE4. Note that this is not
> > workspace stuff.
>
> Ah what if external apps wants to stop screensaver? Think mplayer,etc.

> >  And I think that should be actually everything needed. There's code in
> >  our screensaver code that detect the state of DPMS and doesn't start
> >  saving if DPMS is off (used to be a GUI option, even defaulting to off,
> >  but that's not longer the case with 3.5).

 ^^^ External (I guess that means non-KDE) apps will simply turn off DPMS. 
They do it already anyway.

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