[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:10:44 +0200 CEST
Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> > Always a good idea, how often does the
> > screensaver kick in in a lengthy presentation? Always having to
> > unlock the
> > machine sucks. (Don't know how Haiku handles that ATM. Just
> > saying.)
> In the power management framework I have envisioned, the screen
> saving
> code would broadcast to applications that it is preparing to start,
> and they could tell it not to start. So a presentation running in
> full
> screen would cancel the screen saver (along with media players
> playing
> videos, etc.) Actually all levels of power saving would have this, so
> for example the machine would not try to shutdown the hard drive or
> go
> to sleep during a long download.
I think a proactive approach would be better, though. Ie. an app would
just issue a command that prevents the screensaver from running. This
should be made in a way that this is automatically reverted once the
app is gone.
Bye,
Axel.
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