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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #604635
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 604635

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote : Re: [Bug 604635] Re: [Maverick] Have default settings be energy star 5.0 compliant

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 17:04 +0000, Jerone Young wrote:
> Thinking about his more after Martin's comment on rhythmbox. I think
> another level of idleness has to be created ?
>
> If you have something downloading in Chromium or Firefox .. you do want
> the screen lock or screen blank to happen. But what you do not want is
> for the machine to go to sleep or hibernate automatically.
>
> Almost like something that says that I'm idle .. but don't go to sleep.
>
> @Martin
> You have thoughts on that?
>

This already exists, and is what transmission uses

Rhythmbox could be more intelligent. It could create a suspend inhibit
when listening to music with no visuals, and an idle inhibit if you have
visuals on.

I'll look at implementing this functionality for downloads in Firefox as
an extension. I think I can do it with nsIDownloadManager and
nsIDownloadProgressListener