[haiku-development] Re: Disable screensaver?

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:21:00 +0100 CET

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The live message and reply idea is much better than what I had in 
> mind. My 
> approach would have involved housekeeping, while your idea does not 
> need 
> it. Suppose an application like the MediaPlayer disables the 
> screensaver, 
> but then crashes before it has a chance to disable it again... the 
> service 
> that manages the events would have to keep track of which application 
> has 
> set which setting... your approach is much more robust. Nice!

Well, robustness could be achieved with either method, just that it's 
inherent with Ryan's :-)

Bye,
   Axel.


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