Please standardize Screen saver DBus interfaces

[Ali Abdallah]

Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Thursday 14 of May 2009, Ali Abdallah wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that the screen saver interfaces and bus name are not standard
>> yet! however i see this very important, since a media player shouldn't
>> guess which screen saver is running on the current session in order to
>> use its inhibit interface.
>>
>> Please standardize this,
>>     
>
>  Actually, the way to inhibit the screensaver on X was standardized ages ago - 
> it's XResetScreensaver(), in Xlib. It resets the user inactivity counter, it 
> prevents DPMS from activating, 
I see this X standard which was implemented ages ago not being respected 
by movie players
(xine, mplayer, totem, ...).

> there's no need to turn anything off and on 
> again and worry what happens when the app crashes or there are two of them. 
>   
They have DBus connection with a unique name and when they crash they 
disappear from the session bus, i see no problem here.
> It's enough to just repeatedly call this (and the player is already busy 
> doing something anyway, isn't it?). 
For me it is ugly to have a timeout for calling this every 10 seconds.



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