On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:57:19 +0200 Daniel Vrátil <dvratil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I never had a problem with my screen autolocking when watching movies > or playing games (what else are you people doing that you just stare > into the screen for 5 minutes?) - and if you do, the fix is not to > disable auto- lockscreen, the fix is to fix the broken software that > does not set inhibition correctly. I beg to differ. Aside from watching movies or playing games, some of us also tend to... well, for example... *read text*. (You know, that pesky old-style thing that modern young generations frown upon...) A long, complicated, need-to-be-read-very-carefully kind of text --- that requires some meditating over each paragraph or even each sentence --- can appear in various circumstances and in various formats: * on a web page (disable autolock for firefox?) * in a text editor (disable autolock for emacs?) * in a man page (disable autolock for man and less?) * in an e-mail client (disable autolock for kmail?) * in a pdf viewer (disable autolock for okular?) * and so on... I guess you can see where this is going. If you've ever stared for 10 minutes at a screenful of C code in a text editor trying to debug it, or a complicated set of equations in a pdf trying to understand them, or a philosophy text on a website trying to contemplate over it, or a poem in a foreign language trying to practice reading it aloud, you should know what I am talking about. Aside from reading text, one of the very frustrating things is a karaoke party, when the screenlock kicks in while everyone are watching the YouTube video on the screen and singing to it... There are also many other examples, like an architect analyzing the blueprints or a technical drawing of the project displayed on the screen. Feel free to use your imagination. All the software that displays this stuff is not broken, and should not be fixed. Instead, one should be able to easily disable screenlocking when it gets in one's way. Just put the damn on/off switch on the desktop. ;-) Best, :-) Marko _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
