Micro pauses are small breaks (say 5 seconds) with an interval of ~10 minutes. Those short breaks are one of the best ways to prevent RSI, since they allow the muscles to relax and restore blood flow. It should be possible to ignore those small breaks in the lock screen, instead of postponing. The default interval time of the 5 minutes break could be extended to 60 minutes. Maybe those breaks look annoying, but it's important to remember that they only take 4 minutes total in one day.
Hm, no. I'm against this. Once there is support for "daily"/regular breaks adding this feature would mean to have three different levels of breaks. I've never used anything similar to the time-out plugin except DrWright, so I don't know what those programs can do. But I really want to keep it simple, so this feature is too much IMHO.
I use this applet to take small breaks of 10 seconds every 10 minutes, just to close and rest my eyes, so i don't end up with red "junkie" eyes... That's why i think it would be useful to add a seconds field in the "time between breaks" setting. It doesn't seem like too much to ask, it's not necessary to have different levels of breaks. Please... my bloodshot eyes are begging you 8-)
Nevermind... i just found out that i can set the pause to 10 seconds like i wanted, by editing /home/francisco/.config/xfce4/panel/xfce4-time-out-plugin-12701348072.rc and setting lock-countdown-seconds=10. Greetings, and thanks for your work on Xfce...
I just made a change that allows to specify the different durations with a precision in seconds rather than in minutes directly from the UI. This shouldn't affect people who use xfce4-time-out-plugin for long pauses in any way, but makes it possible for people who want micronpauses to get that without the need for manually editing the rc file. Note that this change doesn't modify the fields of the rc file in anyway, so manually tweaked rc files that used to work before the change will still work after it.