Systray jobs and notifications

[Chani]

On April 9, 2009 11:31:28 Rob Scheepmaker wrote:
> On Thursday 09 April 2009 19:55:49 Chani wrote:
> > how do you warn the user if they close their laptop lid? :)
> > it does make sense for all other triggers, though.
> >
> > ...hmm, if the warning had a sound effect I might notice when closing my
> > laptop. *most* of the time I also wait for it to finish suspend before
> > putting it in my backpack, but it's so reliable now that I don't always
> > check.
>
> O yeah, right, didn't think of the laptop case. (I don't got a laptop
> myself) But for laptops, blocking suspend is even worse: you can suddenly
> discover that your battery is empty, because the last time you closed the
> lid the laptop didn't suspend because you had a job running.
> One thing we could do is maybe have a sound when you have a job running and
> close the lid: delay the suspend for half a minute or something, so the
> user has the chance to open the lid again and wait for the job to end, or
> just ignore it and have the job aborted. I'm not sure if this is a plasma
> thing, I have no idea what actually takes care of suspending when you close
> your laptop lid.

it's a powerdevil thing, and it used to delay suspend by ten seconds anyways. 
I'm not sure what happened to that - maybe I turned it off - but I remember hal 
having issues with it.

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