Inhibiting blanking/locking while video is running (was Re: Removing disable idle system screenlock as default behaviour for Plasma 5)

[Reindl Harald]

Am 27.04.2015 um 17:31 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 07:35 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>>> - and if you do, the fix is not to disable auto-lockscreen, the fix is
>>>> to fix the broken software that does not set inhibition
>>>> correctly.
>>>
>>> IMHO inhibition should be automatically set any time a video is playing,
>>> no matter what the specific player is. How would you suggest we do that?
>>
>> File bugs against the video player that has not yet implemented inhibition.
>> In this case, adobe/flash-plugin (or not, adobe has been aware of this issue
>> for years)
>
> So Adobe has been aware for years but hasn't fixed it. What exactly do
> you think would be achieved by filing (another) bug report? And the same
> for every other app that displays video.
>
> As I tried to say, my take on this is that the problem should be dealt
> with at another level. Blanking/locking the screen is a desktop policy
> issue. It should not be left to the individual apps to decide whether to
> implement something reasonable or not

and to add:

that is (wrongly) selled as security improvement, well, if random 
applications can decide to disable it you are lost and finally the 
history of that thread proves that it *is not* a security feature, has 
the opposite effect and just annoys users


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