Bug 292059

Summary:	Allow display power management settings to be configured via Display and Monitors settings pane.
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Garth Johnson <garth83>
Component:	kcm_screensaver	Assignee:	kscreensaver bugs tracking <kscreensaver-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	drf, keaneyw, mgraesslin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Garth Johnson 2012-01-20 19:21:51 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

I just got done wasting a developers time about what I thought was a power savings issue that turned out to be due to the blank screen, screensaver starting during movies.  It seems to me that this confusion could have been avoided if instead of having a blank screen, screensaver, we just have that feature replaced by standby mode, and also create a separate tab in Display and Monitors that links back to display power management.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Be able to configure display power management in Display and Monitors setting pane.

Comment 1 Dario Freddi 2012-01-20 21:05:01 UTC

See bug 291926 last comment for further info

Comment 2 Will Keaney 2012-04-30 18:55:59 UTC

I wonder whether the screensaver settings should be under power management instead of Display and Monitors.
From my perspective, Display & Monitors infers resolutions, multihead configuration, external display redirection, color depth, and similar things. Screensaver is intuitively a power management function.
Having duplicate settings in two separate configuration panels is messy.

Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2015-02-17 16:39:50 UTC

The motivation of the initial comment seems to be solved. Power management is nowadays inhibiting screen locking, so it doesn't kick in when watching a movie.