On 16/08/07, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > ext Michael Thompson wrote: > >> IIRC, one of the Nokia engineers stated that apps are basically stopped > >> (like hitting Ctrl+Z in bash) when they are minimized, and resumed when > >> they're foregrounded. I might have made this up, but based on the CPU > >> monitor it certainly would appear that something like that is going on. > >> <snip> > > > > > > This might be true in some cases, but for instance Cannola will continue > to > > play music when minimised, so I'm sure there are plenty of cases where > this > > isn't true > > Applications should stop all visual activity and updates when they are > not visible. This is voluntarily, as it naturally depends on the actual > use-case e.g. all Nokia apps do this except for media player and iradio > applet which play music also backgrounded. If you notice that some 3rd > party app has activity although you're not using it and/or it's not > visible nor there's no other good reason for it to be active, file a bug > against it. Fair enough. What I've noticed so far is that claws, for instance, sits in a poll loop and reacts to any key press, whether it's the active window or not, i.e. minimizing the keyboard in xterm. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070816/cbcac16d/attachment.htm
