Hello beautiful, I recently started using your timeout-plugin and I love it. I think forcing me away from the screen every 30 minutes is a very good idea. :) My experience with it, however, shows 2 scenarios where it still doesn't work for me. Scenarios: A) Ok, so the time has run out and timeout forces me to take a break. I gratefully take a break. In the meantime the telephone rings. When I get back to work, the next cycle has already begun, so I have only 21 minutes left. (Not what I want. I want 30.) B) Like many people, I use my computer not only for screen work. It often times works for me in the background, e.g. playing music. When I really set myself to work on the screen, I start with a counter of, say, 14 minutes, before I'm sent to rest. (Not what I want. I want 30.) Feature requests: 1) "Keep going button": When the break is over, the window doen't close automatically. Instead, the "Postpone break" button is exchanged for a "Keep going" button. The next cycle doesn't start before I report for work by clicking the button. 2) "Double click icon to reset cycle": I can reset the cycle to 30 minutes by simply double-clicking on the icon in the panel. This way, I can give myself 30 full minutes for the next session when I return to the screen. I would find these 2 features very valuable. If you agree with me, I would be very grateful if you could be so kind to add these features. Thank you so much. Senbei
For 1) there's 'resume automatically' in the properties, if unchecked i think it does what you want. For 2) there's right-click on the plugin and 'reset counter'..
(In reply to comment #1) That's interesting. Mine has none of the above. Which version of xfce4-time-out-plugin are we talking about? I'm running the one that comes with ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which is 0.1.1 ... am I that out of date?
1.0.1 has those, see http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-time-out-plugin/tree/NEWS for a list of changes since the release you use, as i dont really remember when those options were exactly added. Bug your distro maintainers for an update, but i really doubt this'll go in a lts release, so i suppose your only option is to either backport an ubuntu package or build it yourself.
Could you please edit the title to something senseful? "Feature request" is too general, nobody can imagine what this bug is all about... Thanks! Hint: It would be also the subject for all the mails going to our mailing list.
We could close it for the same reason... 'We already have features... - Closing Ticket' Please open 1 bugreport for each separate request.
I'm considering closing it, since the reset timer feature is already available through the context menu..
Thanks for renaming the thread, I agree the title wasn't really saying much. Thanks for all the advice. I failed to build it myself... compiler is lacking gtk version 2.8, which is also not available in ubuntu 10.04. So I'm left with backporting it as my last option. I think I'd rather not do that because I fear messing up my system, as that would mean I'd have to upgrade gtk as well.. Or maybe not? Too bad. OK, I think you can close the thread now. Thanks again
(In reply to comment #7) > Thanks for renaming the thread, I agree the title wasn't really saying much. > > Thanks for all the advice. > > I failed to build it myself... compiler is lacking gtk version 2.8, which is > also not available in ubuntu 10.04. So I'm left with backporting it as my > last option. I think I'd rather not do that because I fear messing up my > system, as that would mean I'd have to upgrade gtk as well.. Or maybe not? Pretty sure ubuntu 10.04 has gtk 2.8, you need to install the development packages (libgtksomething-dev, libxfce*-dev, etc...) for the configure script to find the needed headers. The time-out plugin should compile and work against xfce 4.8 at least. Closing the bug.