[Hamara-devel] please add caffeine to GNOME if not added to hamara

[shirish]

Hi all,

It would be nice to have caffeine if its not already in hamara. What's 
caffeine you ask ? The one-liner description is apt.


Caffeine prevent the desktop becoming idle in full-screen mode

The use-case are too numerous to present, the simplest one would you are 
playing a movie or something and because neither you used the mouse or 
the spacebar for long the system thinks it needs to lock the screen or 
start the screensaver or do whatever you have programmed it to do if you 
are not there on the screen after 2-5 minutes of idle time.

And while vlc would be the easy one, one possibility is when you are 
multi-tasking between 2-3 apps. and that takes quite a bit of your CPU 
and GPU cycles, if in that the screenlocker kicks in, it would take 
quite a bit of time for the screen to be unlocked (as it would wait till 
some CPU cycles are free in order to do that) and it takes quite 
sometime before you are back to what you were doing. This frustrates the 
user to no-end.

I have been a victim of these a few times myself and hence resigned to 
giving long wait times for the screen-locker to kick in, not the secure 
or ideal condition but the above package does promise to do the same.

Currently it has a serious bug in the Debian BTS - 802908 due to which 
it is unable to function and has been marked to autoremoval if the 
maintainer doesn't fix it.

Hopefully this would be fixed and will be able to see if it helps the 
way I hope it will be.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org