GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 127419
GNOME typing monitor should offer microbreaks
Last modified: 2018-07-11 22:40:46 UTC
It would be nice if gnome-typing-monitor would allow microbreaks (i.e. breaks roughly 20-30 seconds every 10-15 minutes) in addition to wrist breaks. It would be a handy alternative to Workrave.
I would like to second this. It would be useful. You might have to add another threshold to decide whether someone was away from the keyboard long enough to not need a microbreak. Perhaps even some wrist exercises could be added as images to show during the break. Ciao!
*** Bug 301455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123120 ***
This isn't a dupe of bug 123120. That bug is about allowing normal breaks < 1m. Microbreaks are short (10-20s) breaks more often (every 10-15m), in addition to the existing, long break every hour or so. They are designed to provide some relief for your hands and wrists to stop you typing continuously for an hour. The longer break is to make you stand up, do some stretches, etc.
This would also be useful for giving your eyes a break. A typical rule is the 20-20-20 rule: stare at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. This helps prevent myopia or the worsening of it.
From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/147092 : "I think that the typing breaks feature in Gnome should allow the user to set up micropauses and typing breaks. Other RSI/OOS prevention tools (for example, Workpace) suggest a micropause of 10 seconds every, say, 3 minutes and then a Rest Break of 5 mins or more every, say, half an hour. Incidentally, Workpace suggests exercises during these Rest Breaks. I suffer from RSI quite badly and I find that regular micropauses make a much bigger difference than the longer breaks. I believe that is true for a lot of people, but I cannot point to any research on it; it is certainly what we are told by our office OOS prevention person. An easy way to provide this feature would be to repeat the same options that we currently have, so that the tab read: Lock Screen to enforce typing breaks: [ X ] Micropause of [10] seconds every [3] minutes [ X ] Rest break of [5] minutes every [15] minutes (this is what we already have) At a later stage, it would be great to have exercise suggestions during those breaks, but that is a different, long-term feature request."
Mass move to DrWright module. The code has been removed from the control-center, and put back in the drwright module as its interaction with the GNOME 3.x experience was not defined. See http://git.gnome.org/browse/drwright
DrWright is not under active development anymore, has not seen code changes for about five years, and saw its last tarball release in the year 2012. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/drwright/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.