[Gossip-dev] Gnome Screensaver Support

[Richard Hult]

Hi,

Brian Pepple wrote:
> Is there any interest in adding Gnome ScreenSaver support to Gossip?
> This would allow away & extended away presence to be change by the dbus
> signal from Gnome ScreenSaver, instead of using a timer to check the x
> status periodically as it does now.  I was screwing around with dbus
> this morning, and wrote up a quick little patch to see how involved it
> would be.  It doesn't deal with extended away yet, but that shouldn't be
> to difficult to add.  Before I continued though, I figured I check to
> see if there is any interest in this.
> 
> Here's what I've got so far if anyone is interested:
> http://piedmont.homelinux.org/fedora/gossip/gossip-screensaver.patch

Nice! I'm not sure if it's OK to only add an option if you enable
another option (gss/dbus here). We should have something like:

--with-idle-checking=gss/xss/auto

And then if you enable gss or xss explicitly, it's an error if it's not
installed. (Auto should try both and use the first one found, probably
preferring gss.)

/Richard

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