Comment 8 for bug 36568

excuse me but I need to ask you a question:
what would happen in this case:
When I'm connected to the AC I want the display to be put to sleep
after 30 minutes, because when I work it may happen that I skpeak for
a while to my collegues, describing what the monitor shows.
Instead when I'm on battery I need to switch off the display as soon
as possible, to save power.
so this 2 things are conflictuous, because gnome-screensaver time has
to be added!
I thought that disabling it would have been the best solution but...
first of all the preferences depend on gnome-screensaver even if it is
not enabled, but this is not a big problem, since I don't want to
black my screen after 1 minute (which can't be done now)
the sencond problem is that if I want to block the screen after that
period, I can't! because there's no option (even in gconf if I disable
lock_use_screensaver_settings) and if the screensaver is disabled the
screen is not locked!

I think we should reconsider the case that putting the display to
sleep don't have to include screensaver time...

On 4/3/06, Richard Hughes <email address hidden> wrote:
> You might want to try out CVS HEAD, as now the gnome-screensaver time is the start of the gnome-power-preferences slider. I just need to update the FAQ and the yelp file and then this should be good to close.
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> It is unclear that the screen-blanking time is in addition to setting in gnome-screensaver
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36568
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