On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:28 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: > gnome-screensaver is about a lot more than "making it look better." > Let's try to move the conversation past that point.
(Yay, very happy to see this happening!) > I've tried to put some information in the Wiki: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver > > I'll be happy to try to answer any specific questions and criticism. 1. How do see this being integrated with power management solutions like e.g. the existing gnome-power project and some of the ideas that were discussed at GUADEC [1]? To me it seems like there's some common ground in e.g. detecting user being idle (and the user is not idle when e.g. watching a movie or doing a presentation so we need app input (maybe just --poke, but is that secure?)) and enforcing policy (blanking screen, invoking screensaver / locking workstation, putting into suspend, asking the user to authenticate when resuming / unlocking screensaver). Also, ideally the user would have a single dialog where the following timeouts a-d can be configured: a) invoke screensaver; b) blank screen; c) suspend-to-ram (may not be available) d) suspend-to-disk (may not be available) (IIRC, clarkbw even suggests a single widget with multiple sliders and using that timeout(a) < timeout(b) < timeout (c)) Working for a distributor, I think it would be convenient to somehow combine these two efforts (even on the source-code level), but I dunno. What do you think? 2. How does this integrate with fast-user switching? My question mainly comes from ignorance, I think, all I did was install gnome-screensaver from CVS and I was able to log in as another user from the lock dialog (yay!). However, I missed some kind of notification icon in both sessions to switch back / do a new login. So I guess I'm asking for the bigger picture of fast user switching and gnome-screensaver. (of course, if all of fast-user-switching is not part of gnome-screensaver and/or you are concentrating on other bits than f-u-s there is no need to answer this now) Great work! Cheers, David [1] : mjg59's paper is linked from here http://live.gnome.org/Stuttgart2005_2fPresentationSlides _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list