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You can do it with libx11 by setting the "_HILDON_DO_NOT_DISTURB" property: https://github.com/marxoft/qt-compon...creensaver.cpp.

NOTE: I'm not certain that the above example works. It may be necessary to pass the id of the application window, instead of using the desktop widget.

On managing external links:

Cool, I'll give that a shot! I was thinking of perhaps displaying the RSS feed in something other than a QWebView in order to have better control over the embedded links & such, but it is so much easier to just construct an HTML page and let the web viewer do all the hard work.

On managing the backlight:

Thank you very much! I'll use this for Linguine videos asap.

with the webview, would it be cleaner looking to implement a stylesheet. that way you could cheat a bit to recreate maemo ui colors.

That shouldn't be too hard to do, I've been learning a bit about stylesheets elsewhere. However, every time I play around with setting colors, I start worrying that I'll end up clashing with any theming choices made by the user. Do you know if there's a way to find out what the user's theme color scheme is?

You can use QMaemo5Style::standardColor(). There's a list of the colors here: https://github.com/marxoft/qt-compon...tformstyle.cpp.

Marxian to the rescue again!

Well, given the set of requests brought up yesterday and the equal set of solutions immediately provided by Marxian to each request, it seemed only logical to go ahead and implement those solutions. So, version 0.2.1 is now working its way into extras-devel. In this version, the screen saver is now turned off while videos are running. (As it turns out, at least when using Maemo's stacked windows, you need to set the do-not-disturb property on the currently active window, rather than the main application window.) One curiosity is that when you turn the property off, Maemo does not immediately restart the screen saver timer; you apparently need to perform an action (such as closing the video window or changing the volume) to get the timer moving again. (I would imagine that there is some way to programmatically force it to start again, I'll look into it...)

Also in this release, clicking on links in the RSS Text display will open them in the default web browser, rather than in Linguine itself. This works much much better.

And, the Text RSS display is now colored in a manner that should fit better with the user's chosen theme. There isn't a 1-1 mapping from Maemo text colors to HTML CSS text colors, but they can get pretty close; I've got the "Default Background Color" and "Default Text Color" set as the CSS defaults, and I've associated the "Active Text Color" with links. In any case, here's a screenshot of a Text RSS using this scheme:



I've also continued to add a few more news feeds. In particular, I've got ICI Radio-Canada audio headlines and text RSS. (ICI is the Francophone half of the CBC.) As before, please go to the main menu and select "Reset Newsfeeds" to pick up these new feeds. Thanks! (And thanks Marxian!)

Colors in screenshot look good enough to me

Quick request can we name the window after the feed name, like media player and other media applications do?