[Kde-hardware-devel] inhibit suspend

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 18:31:46 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le Thursday 02 October 2008, Sebastian Kügler a écrit :
> > The whole point of this feature (besides apps getting it right over time)
> > is to have it at your fingertips. Maybe we should also inhibit the
> > screensaver, and dpms and call it "presentation mode" or something. I'm
> > not overly happy with the current label.
>
> So why isn't it a profile in the first place? I really don't see a need to
> special case the inhibit, and it'll definitely be error prone. Its
> mechanism and behavior is really "temporarily suppress sleep, I'll tell you
> as soon as I'm done", which is suited for computerized tasks. The profiles
> are better user oriented since you tell "ok, I want this mode now" and the
> behavior follow.

I agree that a profile is the way to go. We should add a "presentation" 
profile to the powerdevil defaults. Dario, is that OK with you?

> Playing with inhibits we'll have a nasty mix of user needs and application
> hints...
>
> > Another option for most of those usecases would be to replace this
> > checkbox with the spinner where you set idle time suspend.
>
> It'd be slightly better, but again it calls for having it on profiles IMO.

Yes, inhibit suspend doesn't cover a couple of other things that should just 
work, such as dpms.
-- 
sebas

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