Comment 28 for bug 1321750

If original Caffeine was 400 lines of Python code and yours is 40 lines then why didn't you fork it ? That way users who already had caffeine installed through it's PPA wouldn't have lost the features that you stripped off! I appreciate that you worked so hard on it and take pride in your work but that doesn't mean that you can impose it on all the users.

You said that you made those changes assuming that most people don't like to play with preferences, do you really think that a simple toggle switch is that much of a burden ? Even the least tech-savvy person understands the use of an ON/OFF switch. With your changes people will have to go fullscreen with whatever app they are using to disable the screensaver.

Your solution solves one problem but brings in a lot of problems which Caffeine had already fixed in the first place !

Seriously, so annoyed with this change.

"I'm sorry, having worked hard to streamline Caffeine's operation so that it doesn't need a user interface, I'm not going to go back to adding one, let alone preferences."

So you jumped in to manage a great application and then decided that it needs some new features and followed a 'no interface philosophy' and then stripped off everything and then when users everywhere begged for the features your only suggestion is to fork it to fix it ? I understand and appreciate the concept of simplicity but you broke something that was already working for everyone, including people who hardly understand technology (I have introduced a lot of people to this nifty little application who loved it).

Just because you spent a lot of time on a particular idea following a particular philosophy doesn't mean that you have covered every possible scenario and use case of this application. You have rendered it useless in almost every-way for me and for several other users that I know.