Smarter Screen saver

[Stephen Shirley]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:39 +0100, Stephen Shirley wrote:
>>The proper way to do this is to have apps such as totem notify
>>gnome-screensaver that it should not engage when a movie is playing.
>>That's fairly simple to do (and i'd be surprised if it hasn't been done).
> 
> Actually, it's not really easy to do at all, especially if you want to
> do it properly, and not just a gnome-screen-saver-specific hack.
> There's a reason why mplayer has a non-trivial amount of code dedicated
> to faking key events to itself when a movie is playing.

Ok, with that in mind, i'll re-state ,-) It should be easy to define a 
standard for this, and, if the standard is designed sensibly, it should 
be easy to add support for it to all the relevant packages. If this is 
indeed the case (i don't know the details of how it all works, so this 
is just a guess), and if people are interested, i'd be happy to do that 
for say dapper drake. It's probably something that would fall under the 
freedesktop.org remit. Comments?

Steve