[Bug 30659] Re: should detect ekiga (voip) activity as activity and not lock screen

[Tollef Fog Heen]

I disagree about handling voice+video different from voice-only calls.
I'm in both cases using the computer and I think this is similar enough
to the case of watching a movie (which inhibits the screensaver from
starting).  Note that I might not be jotting down stuff all the time and
I have a very short lock timeout (1 minute) which combined with a long
password means unlocking the screen actually is a significant time cost
in the middle of a conversation.  You could obviously say that those are
silly settings, but to me as a user, I'm using the computer when sitting
in front of it and talking.

About the wandering around the room for ten minutes; I have a cord about
1.5m long so it'd be a very small walk in my case.

Screen burn is mostly a problem for CRTs  and then you are talking about much, much, much more time than what you'd get from sitting in a phone call.  And if you're worried about that, you can always just switch on the screensaver yourself.
Same goes for laptop power consumption.  (Actually, I think dimming the screen would be fine, but not turning it off or locking it.)

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should detect ekiga (voip) activity as activity and not lock screen
https://launchpad.net/bugs/30659