[haiku-development] Re: Disable screensaver?

> > A function to temporarily disable the screen saver is only the
> > first step
> > of a frame work where applications can fine tune certain behavior
> > of the OS
> > with regards to the system being considered "idle". I think such a
> > frame
> > work will certainly be needed.
>
> You could define the screensaver timer as an event. Then this would
> be
> part of the great OS level event system that has been discussed
> earlier. One of the criteria available to the event system could be

Oh, it could actually be broadcasted to apps from the roster, as a
"B_EVENT" message with a field indicating its mime type ("event/x-
vnd.Haiku-ScreenSaver", "..Suspend"...).

François.

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