[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] add clock to frame

[pgf at laptop.org]

sascha wrote:
 > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 05:39:21PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
 > 
 > [Clock behaviour in suspend]
 > > But I take your point...the answer is: no, it's not easy (with my
 > > simple patch).  I'm not sure what the behavior should be (hide on
 > > idle?!, come out of suspend once a minute?!), really.
 > With the XO going into suspend automatically, it should at least 
 > indicate that the clock has stopped as well (and no, the pulsing power 
 > LED is not enough). Showing an old time is _much_ worse than not showing 
 > it at all.

given martin's point about the battery level, wireless strength,
etc, all becoming stale as well, perhaps the best fix would be to
always hide the frame during idle suspend.  as far as i know,
however, there's currently no mechanism for apps to learn that
idle suspend is imminent.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org