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Re: Workrave-user Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1
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Yes, great piece of software, I use it on any computer I am working on. One suggestion to make it more likely I take breaks: The "Show postpone and skip button" is all one tick box. Can you make it into two ? ie. Tick box for: "Show postpone button" Tick box for: "Show skip button" if the postpone button is shown then upon each postpone the time for the postpone is cut in half until after say 3 postponese there is no choice, you are locked out. I tend to otherwise skip things too often - a self discipline thing I know. thanks if this should be posted in some other way let me know please thanks heiko heiko.rudolph@... 'dance me to the children that are asking to be born....' - Leonard Cohen Sometimes the threads on the loom suggest the picture to come. Then we know that our children-to-be Hope for us in the bardo. For them we weave until out arms grow tired. - by Kim Stanley Robinson ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ---- Von: "workrave-user-request@..." <workrave-user-request@...> An: workrave-user@... Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 1. Mai 2008, 10:49:52 Uhr Betreff: Workrave-user Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1 Send Workrave-user mailing list submissions to workrave-user@... To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/workrave-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to workrave-user-request@... You can reach the person managing the list at workrave-user-owner@... When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Workrave-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Different implementation for "Do not suspend timers when inactive" (Kees-Jan Dijkzeul) 2. Force Typing Break? (JC) 3. Re: Force Typing Break? (JC) 4. Re: Force Typing Break? (JC) 5. Re: Force Typing Break? (Kees-Jan Dijkzeul) 6. "Allways on top" doesn't work (Ole Dahl Rasmussen) 7. FW: Question (Connelly, John T) 8. Compiling 1.8.5 from source - sigc++-1.2 not found on Suse 10.1 (Chris Borrill) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:42:43 +0200 (CEST) From: "Kees-Jan Dijkzeul" <kees-jan.dijkzeul@...> Subject: [Workrave-user] Different implementation for "Do not suspend timers when inactive" To: workrave-user@... Cc: risujin@... Message-ID: <37109.77.250.34.239.1207075363.squirrel@...> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, For some time, Workrave has had a configuration option, where you could disable the "suspend timers when inactive" feature, which is turned on by default. If I recall correctly, this option was added to make workrave more useful to people reading the screen: Breaks would still come, regardless of whether workrave had detected any activity. Although I am not using this feature myself, I do not think it is working really well in practice. The only time it will work, is if you are reading the screen without being interrupted by anything else. Interruptions (phone call, coffee break, visit the restroom) all count as activity, regardless of how long the interruption takes (In my case, fetching coffee definitely takes longer than a restbreak). Additionally, there have been quite a few bugs found in the implementation. The last one is bug 719, submitted only last month. Recently, Michael Levin added a comment to bug 479 (which requests implementation of a "reading mode"), that made me rethink the whole suspend-timer-when-inactive thing. What Michael proposes, in short, is that there be a new mode. In this mode, if the user becomes inactive, and then active again before a natural break is complete, then the user is in retrospect considered active anyway. Michaels goal was to read from the screen while occasionally waving the mouse (or scrolling the document). With this new mode, he'd be considered active the whole time, and get his breaks in time. My feeling is that Michaels suggestion will work much better than the current "disable suspend-timer-when-inactive" approach, because it still allows a "natural break" to take place if the user is interrupted long enough. This way, when you return to the computer, you'll have the maximum amount of time available, instead of finding that you have returned just one minute before your break is due. Additionally, I would suspect that this feature has less impact on workrave's design than the current "disable suspend-timer-when-inactive", and hence less bugs are to be expected. I am tempted to conclude that it might be a good idea to completely scrap the "disable suspend-timer-when-inactive" thingy, in favor of Michaels proposal. I'm not sure what to call it yet. Maybe something like "Ignore incomplete natural breaks" or something. Any thoughts? Anyone still disabeling "suspend-timers-when-inactive"? Thanks! Groetjes, Kees-Jan ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:11:54 -0700 From: JC <ubunt2@...> Subject: [Workrave-user] Force Typing Break? To: workrave-user@... Message-ID: <a937801a0804050111j3230866ey77a17b8cff5aa7d3@...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 How can i make WorkRave force me to go on a break, whether I like it or not? ... a Break where I am "locked-out" of my computer for X minutes. (I'm thinking of something like Gnome's Keyboard Setting's Typing Break) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:14:13 -0700 From: JC <ubunt2@...> Subject: Re: [Workrave-user] Force Typing Break? To: workrave-user@... Message-ID: <a937801a0804050114h3eb7a615ld7517d3a5b2bf364@...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 By the way, I'm on Ubuntu Linux. Workrave is version 1.8.5 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:36:18 -0700 From: JC <ubunt2@...> Subject: Re: [Workrave-user] Force Typing Break? To: workrave-user@... Message-ID: <a937801a0804050136l1255ffccobc76044653524d51@...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Oh, the reason why the "forced typing break" wasn't working was because, when I was playing around with workrave, I changed "mode" from "normal" to "suspended". What is suspended and quiet modes, anyway? ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:11:02 +0200 From: Kees-Jan Dijkzeul <kees-jan.dijkzeul@...> Subject: Re: [Workrave-user] Force Typing Break? To: End-user mailing list <workrave-user@...> Message-ID: <47F74226.4080005@...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Wow... That's a lot of e-mails for one question :-) Let's start near the end... JC wrote: > What is suspended and quiet modes, anyway? > "Normal" mode is for normal usage. It will prompt you to break and, if so configured, force you to take the break. "Quiet" mode is pretty much like normal mode, in that it will still register your activity, and notice that you need to take a break, but it will not actually prompt you to take one, nor block you from using the computer. This is typically used when you want to show something on your computer to someone else. You are using the computer doing the explaining and the showing, but you do not want to be interrupted by breaks. Once you return to normal mode, Workrave will bother you with taking an "overdue" break, if necessary In "Suspended" mode, workrave no longer records your activity. This is typically used when someone else is using your computer for a brief time. In these cases, you may not want to quit workrave, and you also don't want the activity recorded, because it isn't yours, and hence you will not need to take any "overdue" breaks. When someone else is using the computer for a longer time, it is best to quit workrave altogether. JC wrote: > How can i make WorkRave force me to go on a break, whether I like it or not? > > ... a Break where I am "locked-out" of my computer for X minutes. > > (I'm thinking of something like Gnome's Keyboard Setting's Typing Break) > * Switch back to "normal" mode. * Open the preferences window to the break type of your choice, and set the "Maximum number of prompts" to 1. * In the "UI" section, set "Block mode" to either "Block input" or "Block input and screen" That should do it. Groetjes, Kees-Jan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:15:17 +0200 From: Ole Dahl Rasmussen <odr@...> Subject: [Workrave-user] "Allways on top" doesn't work To: End-user mailing list <workrave-user@...> Message-ID: <9A5A55BAA675E644AE7DD2FEC667FEAC6DD73DBAD8@...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, First of all thank you very much for a great piece of software. I use it every day and am sure that it has spared me plenty of RSI. I am having troubles, however, with getting the status window to stay on top, even though I have ticked the "The status window stays always on top of other windows" in the User interface in Preferences. As soon as I click other programs with the mouse, the status window disappears. I work on Windows XP using mostly Office 2003. Best, Ole --- Ole Dahl Rasmussen Programme Officer, Global Funding Unit DanChurchAid/Folkekirkens N?dhj?lp N?rregade 15 DK-1165 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel +45 33 18 77 32 Mob +45 29 69 91 45 Fax +45 33 18 78 26 Skype: odrdca MSN: odr@... www.danchurchaid.org **************************************************************************** Denne mail er blevet scannet af http://www.virus112.com **************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:25:01 -0400 From: "Connelly, John T" <CONNELLY004@...> Subject: [Workrave-user] FW: Question To: <workrave-user@...> Message-ID: <1B45AE651C808D458990F881B2B69643023827B8@...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 12:49:38 +1200 From: Chris Borrill <Chris.Borrill@...> Subject: [Workrave-user] Compiling 1.8.5 from source - sigc++-1.2 not found on Suse 10.1 To: "'workrave-user@...'" <workrave-user@...> Message-ID: <F9B6B3384FCFE64DA082EA620DD5BBD0083F47A072@...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, When I execute ./configure I get the following error: checking for SIGC... configure: error: Package requirements (sigc++-1.2) were not met: No package 'sigc++-1.2' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables SIGC_CFLAGS and SIGC_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. When a look in the software manager in Yast this version of sigc is not present, just libsigc++2. Can anyone tell me how to install sigc++-1.2? Thankyou, Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. 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