2011/10/2 David Jarvie <djar...@kde.org>: > On Sunday 02 October 2011 18:47:19 Dario Freddi wrote: >> On Sunday 02 October 2011 19:34:42 Andreas Pakulat wrote: >> > That leaves out the use-case of not wanting to inhibit all aspects of >> > the current power-save mode, but only a part by switching to a different >> > mode that is similar but differs in one or two aspects. I can think for >> > example for powersave-for-movie mode that dims display (because the >> > movie is shown on a TV) but does not suspend to ram/disk or turn off >> > monitors. Requiring people to create an activity for that even if thats >> > the only one (besides the one they use all the time otherwise) is >> > a regression compared to the current state. >> >> Starting from the fact that your video player (if it's a KDE one) is likely >> to >> inhibit screen power management, hence making your concern invalid, thanks to >> the new RandR integration, if you have an external display connected, you can >> now simply close the lid: the screen will be blanked and the PC will not be >> suspended. So we are already doing the right thing in this case. > > Not everybody uses (or should be required to use) a KDE video player in order > to make their system work in a reasonable way. I only occasionally watch > videos, normally in a browser, and I don't see why I should have to find out > how to create and use a special activity (I don't use activities at all so > far) just because I can't manually select the presentation profile any more. > I want to just click on a link in the browser I already have running, and > select presentation mode, not restart the browser in another activity to view > the video. Or perhaps I have misunderstood your proposal?
You did. I have stated countless times the applet has now an inhibit button which triggers a full inhibit == like a presentation profile but better. > > -- > David Jarvie. > KDE developer. > KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel