[haiku-development] Re: The ways of Reboot. Acknowledge or not?

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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