Comment 42 for bug 1321750

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Chris Schmidt (nadt) wrote :

Correction of the previous comment:

The main reason for this comment is the following sentence in post #25:

"I agree that Caffeine 2.7's functionality should be part of every desktop environment; I'm working towards that!"

I don't agree with that. I simply don't see a reason why the screensaver should be disabled in fullscreen mode? And why should it be enabled when not in fullscreen mode? E.g. when working on my netbook I use fullscreen mode as much as possible due to the limited screen size. But the screensaver should be enabled then. On the other hand, when watching videos on my desktop computer, I don't always watch them fullscreen, but the screensaver should then be disabled. So for me it depends on the programs that are running, if the screensaver should be enabled or disabled. Caffeine 2.5 works perfectly for me. I am glad that it works still for Ubuntu 14.04.

Maybe there are other users who are happy with the current caffeine functionality. But please don't make this part of every desktop environment. At least such functionality should always be optional and disabled by default.

Thanks for your advice of using the GNOME desktop extension "Caffeine" - this maybe useful when working with the GNOME desktop.