Comment 13 for bug 6809

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:24:44 -0400
From: The Anarcat <email address hidden>
To: Johannes Rohr <email address hidden>
CC: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#251070: workrave ignores my lack of activity

Johannes Rohr wrote:
> severity 251070 normal
> thanks
>
> On Mi, Mai 26, 2004 at 01:46:44 -0400, The Anarcat wrote:
>
>>Package: workrave
>>Version: 1.6.1-2
>>Severity: grave
>>Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Oh please! Calling this a 'grave' bug is just ridiculous!

Well, it does render the package unusable. Sorry if I'm being blunt..

>>Starting with this version (I *think* I just upgraded workrave),
>>workrave doesn't consider my times of inactivity. Usually, when I stop
>>using the keyboard or mouse, workrave considers the time passing as
>>"idle time" and stops counting the "busy time".
>
> You might want to have a look at /usr/share/doc/workrave/NEWS.gz:
>
> *****************************
> * Workrave 1.6.0
>
> [...]
>
> ** Timers can be configured to ignore activity.
> ******************************
>
> Checking the "Suspend timer when inactive" checkbox in the "Micro-Break"
> tab of preferences/Timer should bring back the old behaviour.

See, I didn't see that setting at first, but now, I see it and checking
or unchecking it doesn't change anything at all. The timers completely
ignore (in)activity.

> So this is really a minor bug: By default
> /apps/workrave/timers/micro_pause/activity_sensitive should be set to
> 'true'

It is, I double-checked in gconf.

I really think we have a bug here. :(

Cheers, and thanks for the quick answer.

A.