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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #604635
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 604635

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In , Justin-lebar+bug (justin-lebar+bug) wrote :

Content ought to be able to keep the device's screen from turning off.

I don't think we should extend this privilege to all pages. Users coming from other platforms expect that the phone will manage the display, within most applications.

OTOH, it's kind of a bummer that a movie-watching app would need to explicitly ask for permission to keep the display on. If we made this facility available to all pages, it wouldn't need to ask.

We have [1]; I'm not sure what the status of this API is. But I also don't like this API. It should just be lock() and unlock() with no args.

We'll need a separate, more privileged API for Gaia itself to manage the current brightness.

[1] https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/public/nsIScreen.idl