microbreak penalty->start program

[rubo77]

There should be an option to define a program in preferences, that is automatically called, when you ignore one of the break-warnings. And an option that starts a program each time, you wait successfully a full break-period.

This way, you could achieve many goals, for example:
- start a program, that slows down your mouse a bit each time you ignore a break until you take your break, then it goes up to full mouse-speed again.
- send a mail to your boss, that you are working really hard.
- increase the amount of money you earn in your time-recording program each time a bit
- start a controller program, that lifts your desktop a bit
- change the color of your screen
...

[rubo77 (rubo77)]

with the program RSIBreak it already works:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=rsibreak

you can set a program, that starts, when a microbreak starts, and another, when a micro-break ends.

if you disable the "skip" button, then the only solution for you to continue working is to postpone the break, which does not trigger the event, that only fires, if the microbreak ends.

[rubo77 (rubo77)]

use this mouse-speed script to adapt the speed with RSIBreak:
https://github.com/rubo77/mouse-speed

it would be great if this would be implemented in Workrave too

[rubo77 (rubo77)]

i posted an issue here:
http://issues.workrave.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.