Hello Tommy,
Ok, if the objective is to avoid sub-menus for compatability reasons,
and to avoid too much clutter in the menu, maybe just add a single
1hour button. I really only use it to temporarily disable the
automatic lock when I'm sure I'll be working for a while. For this
reason, I'd really like to time-bound my vulnerability (so I don't
forget to re-enable), and so a simple enable/disable button is not
sufficient.
Python is not my primary development language, and while I'd be happy
to write a patch, I'm not familiar with any of your code and/or
development processes. It might be faster/cleaner if one of you could
make the fix. If you still feel that a user-contrib would be hepful
in this case, let me know, and I'll try to submit something this
evening.
Thanks!
On Sep 10, 8:03 am, Tommy Brunn <
tommy.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That functionality was removed in whatever release it was where the app
> indicator was introduced. The reason being that app indicators can't have
> submenus, so there was no apparent elegant UI solution that worked in all
> supported environments.
>
> I'm not that involved in the development of Caffeine anymore, so I'm not
> sure if the app indicators allow for submenus yet. If they do, patches are
> welcome to reintroduce that functionality. From a user survey we did quite a
> while back, we found that most people use the automatic activation or
> manually manage Caffeine. That's why the timed activation was removed,
> rather than reworked using the UI options available.