[Gossip-dev] Gnome Screensaver Support

[Brian Pepple]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 20:36 +0100, Richard Hult wrote:
> 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.)
> 

Yeah, the configure.ac section needs some work (though w/o dbus it sorta
workless building against gss).  How I have it right now, you can't
explicitly disable gss. I figure I'll look at getting the extended away
feature figured out, then look at something more sane in the
configure.ac.

/B
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Brian Pepple <bdpepple at ameritech.net>

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