Re: gnome-screensaver

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 23:03 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:56 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 22:03 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > >  - power monitors down after ... (we should interact with g-p-m if it is
> > > available, else handle it directly)
> > 
> > This was moved to gnome-power-manager by Jon, as monitor DPMS control
> > was considered more of a "power" thing than "screensaver" thing. You can
> > configure monitor power down settings using gnome-power-preferences.
> 
> I feel it should be available in both dialogs (sending the setting to
> g-p-m if it is alive on the D-BUS). 

I think this should be achieved with a button that opens
gnome-power-preferences much like the Keyboard capplet got a "->
Accessibility..." button.

> Think of the case where g-p-m is not
> available (as will happen in GNOME 2.14 vanilla), how are people going
> to put their monitors to sleep?

Please tell me, how are people going to put their computer to sleep with
GNOME 2.14? Also since xscreensaver wasn't really part of GNOME anyway,
I hardly feel this is a regression. However, from a realistic point of
view all distributions that care about GNOME will most likely ship both
g-s and g-p-m anyway. So I don't really see your point.

Another thing is that g-p-m will most likely be part of GNOME 2.16 and
then we want to change to the link button (because it makes sense) as
that will confuse 2.14 users.

    David