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List:       haiku-development
Subject:    [haiku-development] Re: Disable screensaver?
From:       "=?windows-1252?q?Fran=E7ois?= Revol" <revol () free ! fr>
Date:       2008-10-31 14:44:01
Message-ID: 2448420961-BeMail () laptop
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> > A function to temporarily disable the screen saver is only the 
> > first step
> > of a frame work where applications can fine tune certain behavior 
> > of the OS
> > with regards to the system being considered "idle". I think such a 
> > frame
> > work will certainly be needed.
> 
> You could define the screensaver timer as an event. Then this would 
> be
> part of the great OS level event system that has been discussed
> earlier. One of the criteria available to the event system could be

Oh, it could actually be broadcasted to apps from the roster, as a 
"B_EVENT" message with a field indicating its mime type ("event/x-
vnd.Haiku-ScreenSaver", "..Suspend"...).

François.


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