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When I look at a flash video in the browser or at a video in VLC or another player that doesn't correctly interface to KDE, I want to simply disable the screensaver (and to not turne off monitor) putting my mouse on the edge of the screen, using actions for screen edges in KDE control panel.
Now I have to enter each time in control panel, disable the screensaver, watch the video, re-enable the screensaver...

I think it would be too easy to disable the screensaver unnoticeably (i hope that word exists hehe)... A shortkey would be better imho, maybe it even already exist... Or just if there was a notification like the volume one telling you it's off then would be nice...

This is a security risk, since disabling the screensaver also disables the screen lock.

I would wish this only because one application because the default video player in the KDE SC, dragonplayer does not follow screensaver/powermanager settings.

I have powerdevil profile for movies. When I start movie, I just switch profile to "multimedia" and I get full CPU power, full brightness on laptop and so on. All power savings and sleep functions are disabled.

Everything works fine as long as I dont use dragonplayer but VLC, Bangarang or others.

As I attach the laptop to the 50" LCD TV and I start watching movie, the dragonplayer enables the screensaver if I would not go to disable it manually. And even then it would turn screen off after 15 minutes, even that the screensaver would go after 30 minutes.

With other player there is no such problem at all. Or if I dont use external display.

That is the only reason why I would take active screen corner to disable the screensaver. But if/when dragonplayer gets replaced with good mediaplayer (by default, so user does not need to do it) then I cant see reason for this.

TheBlackCat wrote:This is a security risk, since disabling the screensaver also disables the screen lock.

But in screen action there is already "disable screen lock", so I cannot see the difference between that and also disable the screensaver.

Fri13 wrote:But if/when dragonplayer gets replaced with good mediaplayer (by default, so user does not need to do it) then I cant see reason for this.

Well, watching a video (flash) in streaming or in YouTube inside Firefox doesn't disable the screensaver too.

saldsl wrote:

TheBlackCat wrote:This is a security risk, since disabling the screensaver also disables the screen lock.

But in screen action there is already "disable screen lock", so I cannot see the difference between that and also disable the screensaver.

Because it is much harder to disable it by accident that way. It is easy to accidentally slide your mouse to a screen edge without realizing it, leaving your desktop wide open.

With the next release dragonplayer will, suspend the screensaver, so there is no need to implement this.

Dragonplayer is one media player and doesn't cover things like flash video. Is it feasible with non-kde software?

TheBlackCat wrote:

saldsl wrote:

TheBlackCat wrote:This is a security risk, since disabling the screensaver also disables the screen lock.

But in screen action there is already "disable screen lock", so I cannot see the difference between that and also disable the screensaver.

Because it is much harder to disable it by accident that way. It is easy to accidentally slide your mouse to a screen edge without realizing it, leaving your desktop wide open.

I don't think that is as big of a concern as you would think since it wouldn't be set up that way by default, so a user would have to explicitly set up one of the edges to do so, so they would be more likely to remember to not leave the mouse on that edge of the screen if the do want the screensaver+screen lock to start.
Besides in a secure environment where one is concerned with locking their session when they leave for a few minutes, people generally do something explicitly (e.g. key shortcut or mouse gesture) to lock their session rather than rely on the screensaver+screenlock to lock their session for them, since these generally require a timeout before they start during which someone with malicious intent could get in and perform their mischief.

Moult wrote:Dragonplayer is one media player and doesn't cover things like flash video. Is it feasible with non-kde software?

I second this... it would be nice if we could, somehow, detect that a video is playing somewhere and don't start the screensaver after the usual timeout.

It's a quite usual situation, at least for me: I started to see a 10 minutes video on youtube, or a lenghty video on VLC, and after 3 minutes my screensaver fire up, hiding that video! It's really annoying.

But it's not all: even bluedevil should be aware that I'm looking at a video, and don't start any suspension of display dimming action, even if a quarter of hour passed. It should suspend the system only if our battery is running at a critical low power level.

Actually, this is the default behaviour in Mac Os x. You are looking at a video, and the display stays on and bright, and the system doesn't go to suspension.
Many people just don't notice it, but it's there, it's really comfortable, and I miss this feature on my loved KDE system.