[Desktop_architects] The experience of an ISV

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Hi,
Well in regards to the screensaver issue I thought that already where a
solution, but it could be its GNOME specific atm. In GNOME 2.14 Totem
for instance is able to tell gnome-screensaver to not activate using
dbus. No idea if any other screensaver package listens to dbus for such
messages, but that should be an easy fix I assume.

Christian

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:43 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:18:49PM -0800, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> > Great feedback.
> > 
> > Most of this seems to be in line with tasks and prioritization on
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/PortlandIntegrationTasks
> > 
> > Can you expand on the use case for "Interface with e-mail client"? Is
> > there specific functionality you are looking for beyond "start an e-mail
> > composer for this mailto: URL" ?
> > 
> > Can you explain the use cases for the wallpaper and screensaver?
> 
> Here's a simple use case.  Inkscape has a "presentation" mode called
> inkview, where it goes full screen and allows sort of powerpoint-like
> presentation of SVGs.  Unfortunately, if you stay on one slide too long,
> the screensaver turns on.  I'd like to have a simple way to delay the
> screensaver by 1 hour for as long as the inkview process is loaded.
> 
> A trick is that there's actually two things - the WM screensaver, and
> the monitor power control.  Obviously, it needs to be possible to delay
> both.
> 
> For wallpaper, I would absolutely *love* it if there was some simple way
> from within Inkscape to do something like File->SetAsWallpaper, to make
> whatever's loaded in Inkscape to become the background.  Some WM's
> support SVG backgrounds now, but others don't, so it'd also be nice to
> be able to query whether it's allowed, and if not, have inkscape render
> a PNG and send that instead.
> 
> 
> I'm certain a lot of other apps would be able to use both the above
> capabilities.  I'd be happy to volunteer inkscape as a guinea pig if
> needed. ;-)
> 
> Bryce
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