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(Get the code!)
This is totally useless to me now.
Examples:
- I used to set up caffeine to not engage whenever apt-get was running something so I could complete updates before letting my machine go to sleep - there's no way to do this now. Full screen doesn't help when I walk away in the middle of something.
- Encoding video takes forever, so I would set up caffeine to disable sleep as long as the encode was going. I could walk away from my computer and know that it would go to sleep when it was done. Now I don't have that option
- I have multiple monitors, I basically NEVER EVER have anything full screen. So now the system goes to sleep on me no matter what it is doing
I just don't understand this decision. I completely agree that the computer should do the right thing always automatically, but it doesn't. That's why we had Caffeine in the first place. If you want to improve the Ubuntu user experience so that it always 'does the right thing' then join the Ubuntu UI development team, don't break the tools that we had.