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

[pgf at laptop.org]

jameson wrote:
 > Well, if the frame always auto-hid after 10 seconds, and the delay for
 > idle-suspend was 15 seconds, then it would work. I personally believe that
 > the frame should be hidden more agressively - whenever there's a user action
 > that doesn't address it, and after a longish timeout around 10 seconds. In
 > my experience with kids, hitting the frame key and then trying to interact
 > with the activity and being unable to is one of the more common hangups.
 > 
 > (I'm afraid I don't understand the latest on suspend, but it's my
 > understanding that there are some kind of "micro-suspend" periods which are
 > separate from longer-term "idle suspend".)

that's the plan of record, but there's no current implementation.

(and currently the idle suspend timeout is much longer than 15 seconds --
more like 1 or 2 minutes.)

paul

 > 
 > Jameson
 > 
 > 2009/5/3 <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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