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Bug 602295 - when user is idle, pause hamster instead of stop
when user is idle, pause hamster instead of stop
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 596999
Product: hamster-applet
Classification: Deprecated
Component: usability
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: hamster-applet-maint
hamster-applet-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-18 12:05 UTC by Max Schmidt
Modified: 2009-11-18 12:24 UTC
See Also:
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Description Max Schmidt 2009-11-18 12:05:37 UTC 
It would be a very nice feature to pause the hamster when the user is getting idle (or locks his desktop) instead of stopping it. After unlock it should be reactivate the last activity automatically.

Would be a possible solution for 

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523546
Comment 1 Toms Bauģis 2009-11-18 12:24:51 UTC 
thanks for the report.
Such solution, however, will lead to mind bending statistics - if now it is 3pm, then why the task that start at 1pm has been only going on for ten minutes.

right now you can resume the task you were doing before by double-clicking on it in the day view. in means of accessibility it is as good as pause/resume, if not even better.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 596999 ***