On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 22:21 +0100, David Faure wrote: > Hello, > > Is there some spec that would allow to implement a desktop-wide > signal in > order to disable things like calendar reminders, chat notifications, > new email > notifications etc. during a presentation? > > Calligra Stage, LibreOffice Impress and other presentation software > could emit > a dbus signal when starting/stopping a presentation, and > calendar/email > software would listen to that and disable/enable > reminders/notifications. > > I give professional trainings and give talks at conferences, and it's > annoying > or even embarrassing when (recurring) calendar reminders pop up. > Imagine if one said "It's time to take one of those anti-baldness > pills" :-)
There's already an inhibition API for the screensaver which could be extended: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/idle-inhibit-spec/latest/ GNOME/GTK has an implementation for other inhibition reasons, which are implemented in GTK (client-side) and gnome-session (server-side): https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkApplication.html#gtk-application-inhibit https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkApplication.html#GtkApplicationInhibitFlags Full disclosure, I'm listed as one of the authors of US Patent US8881065B2 which is relevant. It's held by Red Hat and is free for any Open Source/Free Software to use[1]. Cheers [1]: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/patent-promise _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
