I was wondering how to do dbus from applets . For power saving, the display can go to dimmed or off, and there is an inactivity flag that can be set or clear - the latter normally is what you use to shut off tasks. If you watch via VNC, the original battery icon will stop animating when this goes true (the screen goes off though there may be other qualifiers). It is one of the other com/nokia/mce signals - just subscribe to it and stop asking. I do something like this in my minigpsd setup applet - I use the stock-ok icon instead of the animated GPS status when it goes inactive and stop the icon updates. When it goes active again, I restart them. Since I wasn't able to figure out dbus (but now that I can see your code I have an idea), I used a dbus-to-gconf task since I could get gconf events in my applet.
412b, thats the longest couple of weeks ever i'm in the middle of a cycle as well, can't believe December is almost upon us edit, context: Today, 01:33 PM : 412b : Sorry, but a couple of weeks I'm gonna veeery busy Today, 05:42 PM : 412b : Update uploaded.